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HAMILTON WINS… ROSBERG FUMES COVER IMAGES As Wolff threatens team orders “I don’t want contact anymore” Etherington/LAT; FORMULA E FINALE Charniaux/XPB; BUEMI SURVIVES CLASH TO TAKE THE CROWN Rajan Jangda/e-racing.net

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Nico still struggling to RACE CENTRE 46 GP2; GP3; Blancpain Sprint Cup; NASCAR Sprint Cup; Formula get the balance right Eurocup; IMSA SportsCar JUST CAN’T QUITE GET IT RIGHT. WHEN CLUB AUTOSPORT it comes to wheel-to-wheel battles, he is either too soft or overly 65 to race in BRDC F3 at Spa robust. He usually comes off worst too, particularly when fi ghting 66 Crack Mercedes squad for British GT Mercedes ‘team-mate’ and title rival . 68 New Jaguar series launched for 2017 It’s not diffi cult to see why Rosberg tried so hard to close the 69 Humble Pye: the voice of club racing 70 National reports: ; door on the last lap in . As well as the obvious points that ; Thruxton; ; victory would bring, he’s also been on the receiving end of Barbon Manor and Harewood pretty tough manoeuvres from Hamilton in the recent past. But most of Hamilton’s moves have been on the exit of FINISHING STRAIGHT corners, when cars naturally drift wide. Last year’s US GP 78 What’s on this week aside, his moves have tended to be just on the right side of the 80 From the archive: 1968 French GP line. Rosberg’s Ring defence was crucially on the run 82 Have-a-go hero: into a corner and, as a result, seemed rather more blatant. AUTOSPORT SUBSCRIPTION OFFER More worrying for F1 fans is that Mercedes is now seriously 48 Sign up and get a FREE McLaren- looking at team orders. That would be a disaster in terms of off icial team T-shirt spectacle, as the Hamilton-Rosberg tension has been one of the most interesting elements in F1 since the dominance of the began in 2014. It would be a great shame to see that end, but also easy to understand Mercedes’ FIND US ON decision if it did act to avoid further broken W07s. Speaking of broken, I was saddened to see the Formula E title autosport.com fi ght nearly end with a dubious clash. At best, ’s move was clumsy in an 1989 Suzuka manner. At worst, twitter.com/autosport it was a cynical takeout in the style of in Japan in ’90. facebook.com/autosport

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JULY 7 2016 3 Mercedes battle boils over again

By Ben Anderson, Grand Prix Editor @BenAndersonAuto XPB IMAGES F1/AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX REPORT

Last-lap clash left Rosberg nursing a broken wing…

HOW TO RECONCILE THE BURNING INDIVIDUAL AMBITION OF TWO elite Formula 1 drivers with their team’s imperative to achieve the best collective result possible, without imposing a directive that will neutralise the sporting spectacle to which they all have a duty of care?

It seems Mercedes may have finally reached the point at of seconds behind Rosberg. Hamilton lost a second to a slow which it feels that this delicate balance of disharmony can left-rear change, but that made little difference to his situation no longer be maintained, after Lewis Hamilton and Nico at this stage. He’d gone 11 laps further than Rosberg on his first Rosberg collided while fighting for victory on the last lap set of tyres, so strategic advantage seemed his. of the Austrian Grand Prix. Then ’s right-rear tyre exploded on the main This collision provided the thrilling denouement to a race straight as he began the 27th lap. After five laps spent behind the that seemed Hamilton’s to lose from the start. He had pole; the race resumed. Hamilton tracked Rosberg closely, Rosberg started down in sixth thanks to a grid penalty; and remaining comfortably within two seconds of the leader, with ’s high-flying McLaren-Honda providing knowing his team-mate would have to stop again. an early buffer to the pack, everything seemed to be falling “At a certain stage we changed opinion,” added Wolff. “We Hamilton’s way early on. felt the two-stop was actually the safer way to finish the race. But the race came back towards Rosberg when it became This was why we converted and brought Lewis into a situation clear that his two-stop strategy was actually quicker than that put him behind Nico [in the final stint].” Hamilton’s planned one-stopper. Hamilton was within 1.254s of Rosberg when he came in for “Lewis was ahead on the road and the one-stop seemed to a second time on lap 54. His stop was again slow (the front-left be the better strategy for the leader,” explained Mercedes team stuck this time), and after Rosberg made his own second stop boss . “We weren’t sure how far would go a lap later he emerged ahead, thanks partly to Hamilton’s delay and whether they would try a one-stop, so we kept him out. and partly to a poor out-lap from the reigning world champion “His times were competitive in comparison to the two that i ncluded a m ista ke at Tu rn 2 . . We didn’t care so much about Nico and the Red Bulls, Had Hamilton been cleaner on his first lap with that final set because they were on a two-stop.” of soft tyres, and had he not suffered two separate delays at his Hamilton emerged from his pitstop on lap 21 of 71 a handful stops, perhaps this race would have ended very differently.

6 JULY 7 2016 then couldn’t get on the power. get onthe couldn’t then and kerb, bounced the early, in clipped turned obviously the lap, and again at Turn 1. 1. at Turn again lap, and the 9to begin Turn slow mode’. through Hewas ‘passive termed Late-race Mercedes what into overheated slipped had system and wire second. a f brake-by- his that l fact the against fighting ha n struggling, clearly i ith w to was Rosberg it, and in tenths six only there were lap still final closed go to the laps but starting Hamilton’s efforts, to thwart threatened traffic ree th ith w nd a far. too arisk was soft Mercedes felt clearly and 17 ultra- to onthe Rosberg, laps compared prix one fewer of super-softs set grand for this Hamilton’s choice to it was pick fact actual butin rival, his than of tyre compound aharder using down Rosberg to chase having about radio over the complained Hamilton seconds. defended Jolyon ly Palmer’s lapped Renault. both they as hairpin same that rited spi towards hill upthe run byonthe had blasting Bull, Red onthe own Verstappen ter f a n, ru wide. Rosberg to run 2and at Turn hairpin the into line inside the laps 10 ith w lead Hamilton. with abandoned had of one-stop Mercedes sort strategy outthe of seeing on account stage, at led this Verstappen’sMercedes. Max actually Bull Red “It’s very easy when those sorts of things happen to follow and to follow happen and of“It’s things sorts whenthose easy very “It was definitely costly for him,” said Hamilton. “He “He Hamilton. for said costly him,” definitely “It was team-mate his tore after it mattered not. Hamilton Ultimately by1.517 Hamilton leading 63 Rosberg lap with finished They of apass his two more to before laps wait had making Hamilton the 3to retake Turn into outside line onthe swept past Rosberg sister the down 16 to now had laps chase Hamilton it was, As

S BLOXHAM/LAT That was always the intention. The collision completely took completely took collision The intention. the always was That space. track him leaving always there, to him keep Iwanted and despite BBW the problem. brakes, his control” with under who felt “everything hehad Rosberg, there,” Hamilton. said inside could’ve come onthe cars –three space a larger began. inquest the Then circuit. onthe of debris atrail Mercedes left the as Raikkonen Verstappen Kimi and victory. take 3and Turn into past to slip Hamilton allowing collision, of the aresult as car his folded underneath Rosberg’s as just front wing circuit, the rejoined and grass the across outside. Heskated onthe area run-off the into Hamilton spat outside of which Rosberg’s contact, made car, butthey circuit. of the outer to edge the Hamilton squeezing hairpin, the into late attempt to turn unusually an to make chose But zone. Rosberg braking the reached cars two to Turn 2, but Rosberg covered inside. butRosberg the 2, to Turn up drag onthe Rosberg slipstreamed Hamilton to this. down exit.” good got areally and previously Idid as just corner do the and together to my shit keep butImanaged exit, not getthe then XPB IMAGES “I don’t need to take the ideal line. I had Lewis on the outside outside onthe Lewis Ihad line. ideal the don’t“I to take need to defend,” right countered Ihave the “I’m inside, onthe Ileft so lines white the within possible as wide drove as “I frustration. in Mercedes garage the adeskin Wolff slammed to positions further losing homefourth, limped Rosberg the around trajectory his attempted to continue Hamilton Hamilton went for the outside line and moved ahead as the the as moved ahead and went outside for line the Hamilton helter-skelter the After came 70 it all laps previous of the JULY 72016 number three celebrating 2016win …and Hamilton 7 F1/AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX REPORT

Hamilton led from pole and dominated the race’s early stages

me by surprise. I didn’t expect Lewis to turn in.” briefly off track on the outside exiting Turn 4; the other an The stewards decided that Rosberg hadn’t left Hamilton aggressive chop into Turn 2 after cutting back underneath enough space, despite his supposed intentions, ruling that he Rosberg to repel a n attack at Tu rn 1. should have 10 seconds added to his race time for causing the This set the tone for their future fights and gave collision, and also reprimanding him for driving his damaged Hamilton a potentially crucial psychological edge in battle, car to the finish in a dangerous condition. as Mercedes laudably refused to impose team orders This was the third major incident between these two since for the sake of F1’s audience. Mercedes began dominating F1 in 2014, and the second in the But Mercedes faced internal strife managing the rules of past five races of the current campaign. It prompted Wolff engagement, forced to impose restrictions on the use of particular to declare publicly that he will consider imposing team orders modes at certain times and issue specific guidelines on his drivers because on strategy to avoid handing one driver an ‘unfair’ edge “this needs to end”. over the other. This is the fourth time When Hamilton Hamilton’s and Rosberg’s “Wolff declared he will then refused a team cars have made contact of order to let Rosberg some form during a race this past during that year and, the longer they consider imposing team summer’s Hungarian are permitted to fight, the Grand Prix, Rosberg more l i kely it seems that orders on his drivers” went berserk, feeling they simply cannot be that he had been unfairly trusted to do so without driving into one another. compromised in that race, finishing behind Hamilton Perhaps that’s the inevitable consequence of the dynamic despite starting on pole. Mercedes has created by steadfastly allowing its two charges At the following race in came the first major to race each other freely. Every time they have battled closely flashpoint, as the two collided while disputing the lead on on track there has been some sort of controversy, which has the first lap. Rosberg tried to go round the outside of Hamilton then fed further escalation down the road. at Les Combes, but this time decided to stay the course rather Wolff referenced Bahrain 2014 as the ideal sort of race than back out. He lost some of his front wing; Hamilton lost Mercedes wants to see from its drivers, but arguably that the race; Rosberg was fined by Mercedes. grand prix lies at the root of its present predicament. There followed a long period of calm through the rest of Hamilton got the best of that battle, with several 2014 and the early part of ’15, but as Hamilton closed in on well-judged but forceful moves – three that forced Rosberg a third world title the tension built once more.

8 JULY 7 2016 QUALIFYING ETHERINGTON/LAT

Rosberg had set early pace, but FP3 crash put

him on the back foot DUNBAR/LAT

A ON THE FRONT ROW, A McLAREN-HONDA ON THE second, a sudden downpour at a crucial moment, suspension failures on two cars, a big crash for one of them, plus drivers getting penalised for speeding under yellow flags. Qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix was one of those brilliantly unpredictable and drama-filled sessions that make Formula 1 so fantastic to watch sometimes, yet come the end there was a predictable result as Lewis Hamilton claimed . But his journey to that result was anything but straightforward. He admitted to being “way off the pace” of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg during Friday practice, and he struggled with tyre blistering during the early stages of FP3 on Saturday. But come qualifying he was bang on form, nearly two tenths faster than “Third on Rosberg in Q2 and comfortably quickest again (by 0.543 seconds) the grid after a rain-affected final segment. was a result The drivers all began Q3 on intermediate tyres, after rain fell Button heavily at the end of Q2, but everyone described as had to switch to slicks for the last few minutes as conditions improved. ‘madness’” Hamilton made the best of it at the end, while Rosberg dropped four tenths to his team-mate in the second sector alone on his final flier. Rosberg’s day unravelled in FP3 after a strong Friday, thanks to a suspension failure over the kerbs exiting Turn 2 that pitched him into the wall and led Mercedes to strengthen the assembly on both cars. He headed into qualifying with a five-place penalty for a gearbox change as a result of the crash, which meant Nico Hulkenberg stole a front-row start for Force India by setting the third-fastest time. Hulkenberg was the first driver to switch to slicks in the tricky conditions of Q3, and his performance evoked memories of that sublime maiden pole position for Williams at the 2010 Brazilian GP. “It reminded me a lot of Brazil,” he said. “I was feeling really good in the car, and to be honest I was expecting a little better.” Hulkenberg was one of five drivers investigated for speeding under yellow flags at the end of Q1. The session had been interrupted by a scary crash for ’s Toro Rosso at Turns 8 and 9, then affected by an engine failure for team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr exiting the pits, which caused those yellows. Hulkenberg and Renault’s

XPB IMAGES were absolved, but , and all copped grid penalties. In Japan last year Rosberg had pole position, but lost ground to Vettel’s puncture Thanks to an extra flying lap on account of that earlier switch Hamilton at the start. He attempted to hold on around the outside brought out the safety to slicks in Q3, Hulkenberg was nearly half a second faster than of the first two corners, but found himself hung out to dry (again) car, in the process Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, which also dropped five places thanks as Hamilton gently eased him off the circuit at the exit. setting up the Merc to an unscheduled gearbox change earlier in the weekend. drivers’ showdown “That’s what happens when you’re on the outside,” said Vettel and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen (sixth fastest) admitted Hamilton afterwards. to not risking enough as the track improved. Their caution allowed Determined not to get outmuscled again two races later, McLaren-Honda’s Jenson Button to split the scarlet cars with the Rosberg stood firm on the outside as Hamilton attacked into fifth quickest time, which translated to third on the grid once the Turn 1 after the start of the US GP. They collided without penalties were applied – a result he described as “madness”. serious consequence, but Rosberg bemoaned Hamilton That’s a pretty fair description of the session as a whole. “trying to drive me off the track”.

JULY 7 2016 9 F1/AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX REPORT

“THERE’S ALSO A NASTY BUMP ON THE APEX THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE”

Compromise between entry and exit is key to mastering Turn 9

Turn 9

WATCHING FORMULA 1 CARS you will leak time to your rivals at Austria’s is through the corner itself. fascinating because of how There’s also a nasty bump fine the margins are. A short on the apex thrown in for lap means small gaps, and good measure. minor errors in short corners I could see drivers trying can have big consequences. diff erent approaches in first The tricky (and fast) practice, working out the downhill right-hander at fastest way to suit their cars. in the back to compensate kerb as they dare, perhaps all Celis never gets close to Turn 9 exemplifies the is all about the for an imperfect exit. too aware that momentum is this fine line. He tends challenge, because of the exit, so much so that sometimes Kimi Raikkonen’s natural their only friend with a Honda towards entering too compromise required he’s back on the throttle too style leads him this way in any engine behind them. slowly, but is also unable to between entry and exit. soon and has to lift off . case, while the two Toro Rosso Sebastian Vettel, Nico pick up the throttle properly Get too greedy on the Lewis Hamilton and Nico drivers know their car works Hulkenberg, and whenever he summons the brakes and the hill gobbles Rosberg tend towards carrying much better in the turns than the two Red Bull drivers are courage to chuck Sergio you up in a flash, ruining momentum into the corner, on the straights, so they also more circumspect, sacrificing Perez’s car into the corner your crucial exit onto the probably encouraged by the go for the ‘big-balls’ approach. some entry speed for a quicker with greater verve. pit straight. Focus too far superior downforce the W07 The McLaren drivers both rotation through the turn and But this is F1. It’s not on stopping and rotating produces and the fact that enter on a wider line than the thus a straighter exit. supposed to be easy. the car for that exit and they have F1’s best engine rest, as far across the outside Force India reserve Alfonso BEN ANDERSON

Arrivabene: ‘At Ferrari we like to pick one

DUNBAR/LAT number-one driver’

10 JULY 7 2016 Once again Hamilton came out on top when push came to shove ETHERINGTON/LAT

Hamilton won that race and with it his third world at Turn 2 on the final lap at the Red Bull Ring. Rosberg championship. He claimed a lack of grip on the wet inside held the lead after a brilliant recovery drive – a performance line sent him accidentally into his team-mate, but Rosberg he felt was “one of my best” in F1 – and he was desperate was furious, Wolff called Hamilton’s move “too hard”, not to let victory slip away. and the rules of battle were re-enforced internally ahead Hamilton saw his one chance to reclaim a race that of the next race in Mexico. he su rely felt belonged to h i m, a f ter ta k i ng pole a nd The next time Rosberg found himself inside Hamilton at dominating the early stages. Turn 1 (in this season’s opening race in Australia) he gained ‘That’s what happens when you’re on the outside’ looked revenge by forcing Hamilton wide (with a brief bit of contact) like Rosberg’s rationale for the way he chose to defend his lead. as Raikkonen’s Ferrari overtook them both after the start. After the number of times he’s suffered at Hamilton’s hands, When Rosberg tried to drive around the outside of Hamilton you can sympathise with the logic. But he pushed things just at Tu rn 1 i n Ca nada severa l a fraction too far again, races later, they made running into Hamilton, contact again and this time “Rosberg pushed things compromising his own Rosberg was forced wide. race, spoiling another In between times they Mercedes one-two, and collided spectacularly on the a fraction too far again, allowing Hamilton to first lap of May’s Spanish be the victim despite GP, as Rosberg was slowed spoiling a Merc one-two” being the aggressor. by an incorrect engine This moment was several setting exiting Turn 3, then closed the door aggressively as seasons in the making, and its ramifications could be widespread. Hamilton attempted to drive inside him on the exit. Mercedes may finally choose to lay down proper team orders Both called that a racing incident, as did the stewards. to prevent a recurrence, in which case collective duty will defeat Wolff refused to apportion blame, but Mercedes came away individual ambition and Hamilton and Rosberg will no longer from a race that should have resulted in a dominant one-two be allowed to race each other freely. fi n ish w ith zero poi nts. F1 will be all the poorer for that if it happens, but no one The pattern over these past two years suggests Rosberg has can argue they didn’t see it coming. And how oddly fitting it found himself one step behind Hamilton repeatedly in crucial would be if an incident at the same venue where Ferrari caused wheel-to-wheel situations, and has had to become steadily team-orders outrage by letting defeat more aggressive to prove he is no soft touch. in the 2002 Austrian GP should be the All this history is relevant when you consider what happened straw that finally breaks Wolff’s back.

JULY 7 2016 11 MARATHON IN TYRE FERRARI BEATS RED BULL 12 faze himatall.” pressure itdoesn’t on thetyre, andunder good him. Max isvery Raikkonen behind when itwas also reminiscent ofBarcelona, rubber left. there wasn’t alotof the pinsontyres – we hadgone through all mouths because weknew that tyre last. did agreat job making dominated track. “Max on suchapower- team expected to struggle , whose race,” saidRed Bullboss hand onFerrari inthe to 24points. the constructors’ table second-placed Ferrari in Bull to cutitsdeficitto in themiddleofrace. bottling Raikkonen up to make thetyres last– strategy after struggling his ownplannedone-stop Ricciardo –whoaborted team-mate Daniel to stay ahead. 56-lap stintonsofttyres executed amammoth an earlier pitstop, then jumped Raikkonen with Grand Prix. second intheAustrian of one-stoppers to finish Kimi Raikkonen inarace VERSTAPPENMAX BEAT F1 S BLOXHAM/LAT “It was quite “Our hearts were inour “We hadtheupper The result allowedRed He was helpedby Verstappen (above) /AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIXREPORT JULY 72016 the title rivals have beeninvolved ina the last lapoftheRedBullRingrace. to defendhislead from Hamilton on for causing thecollision while trying last lapoftheAustrian Grand Prix. aftermath oftheircollision onthe team orders onhistwo drivers inthe Toto Wolff isconsidering imposing MERCEDES MOTORSPORT BOSS This isthesecond timethisseason Rosberg was penalised10seconds in Austriafor McLaren Button starred latest collisionlatest Mercedes issues team orders threat after threat after orders myself, ‘OK, that’s it, they’ve learned to happen, anditwipedoutbothcars. “It was clear itwas eventually going without any collision,” said Wolff. about itbecause we had29races be neededto avoid arecurrence. Wolff feels clear guidelines may now collision inMay’s Spanish GP, and major incident, following theirlap-one “From my naive thinkingIsaidto “In Barcelona Iwas mucheasier

XPB IMAGES Button ‘amazed’ ‘amazed’ Button by drive tosixth retiring thecar the whole race.” he said. “We were losing power constantly and nearly failure, after what hedescribed asatroublesome race. strategy-wise we got the maximumoutofthecar.” a sixthhasmademevery happy. We didagood job – straightline speedto overtake, butIenjoyed itandto get I’m amazedwe kept thembehindat thestart oftherace. “All thecars that finishedinfront ofusare muchquicker, so through from lower positions. he was shuffled down theorder asfaster cars battled winner Lewis Hamilton intheearly part oftherace, before Prix, after finishingsixthfrom third onthegrid. McLaren-Honda team’s performance intheAustrian Grand JENSON BUTTON WAS AMAZEDWITHHISANDTHE “The enginewas notrunning well from lapthree orfour,” Team-mate Fernando Alonsoretired with anERS battery “The traffic was tough because we have don’t the “That’s definitely asgood asitwas going to get,” saidButton. The 2009world championran second behindeventual contact, thenthat’s theconsequence. but ifracing isnotpossible without myself –because Ilike to seethemrace, the order at acertain stage intherace. options, andoneoptionisto freeze consequence isto lookat allthe it happensagain. So theonly happen anymore.’ Buthere we go, consequences andit’s notgoing to their lesson, they’ve seenthe “It’s unpopular–itmakes mepuke Will Rosberg and Hamilton be MANOR NOW A told to hold station in future? ‘SERIOUS’ TEAM DIRECTOR Wehrlein was believes the competitive throughout team has shown it is no the weekend and longer just making up the qualified 12th. numbers in F1 with its “It puts a sign down performance in Austria. that we are a serious, For only the second professional team,” Ryan time in the team’s history told Autosport. “We’ve it claimed a points finish, been called all sorts of with things over the years, but claiming 10th on the last we came into this season lap after a brake failure trying to get organised and sent Force India’s Sergio understand what it means Perez crashing out. to be a top team.”

Q&A

PASCAL WEHRLEIN MANOR DRIVER How does it feel to be a Formula 1 points scorer? Under these circumstances it

S BLOXHAM/LAT feels great. In the middle of the race I thought ‘the race is done’ I just don’t want any contact anymore.” Rosberg said he would accept team because we were so unlucky Hamilton urged Wolff to avoid orders if the team decided it was the right with the safety car. We stopped one lap before imposing team orders. “We never want course of action, while Red Bull boss it came out and I went a lap down, was last and team orders like that to happen,” he said. Christian Horner suggested that 12 seconds behind [the pack]. But I kept pushing. “I saw a replay of Michael [Schumacher] Mercedes may have to reconsider and [Rubens] Barrichello years ago, and the viability of its driver line-up. You were following Bottas for a while. I was disappointed back then as a fan. “Longer term, how tenable is it for that Did you know that was for the final point? “It’s not always going to be perfect, but pairing to continue?” said Horner. “It’s I knew, and I was hoping to get a crazy scenario that’s motor racing. We’re driving at over enormously difficult, because no matter when Rosberg and Hamilton were coming in the 200mph – you expect us to drive around how much those guys say they are team blue flags, otherwise it would have been difficult to and never have a problem? I doubt it.” players, they are racing for themselves.” overtake, because Bottas was on 10 or 15-lap-old super-softs and I was on more than 40-lap-old soft tyres, but I was still able to fight with him so it was a great performance from the car.

Where did that pace come from? Ferrari puzzled by cause I have no idea! I think a lot is due to the tyres, because it’s the first weekend we are not struggling with temperature. We are even overheating the of Vettel’s tyre blowout tyres and we haven’t had this before. It helped a lot.

SEBASTIAN VETTEL SAID THE to stretch its tyre life. “It was clear What happened at the start of the race when explanation for the tyre failure that that everybody had much more tyre you missed your grid slot? ended his Austrian GP remained “a life than expected, so to do 27 laps I knew that Massa was out, but it’s the first time complete question mark” after the race. on that [super-soft] compound is there was a box empty in front of me. I didn’t think The Ferrari driver retired from the not much,” he added. about it. I went behind the next guy, then I saw lead when his tyre exploded at the “Kimi [Raikkonen] did more than Sebastian [Vettel] in front of me and I thought ‘I start of lap 27 of 71, as he tried to 20 laps on the ultra-soft; there were didn’t finish qualifying behind him!’ So I put the stretch his first stint. other people who did more laps on reverse gear in and stopped just before the lights He started ninth after a grid penalty the super-soft.” came on. Maybe half a second later I would have for a gearbox change, and was trying to Pirelli said analysing the failure would gained a penalty. You have so many buttons, complete the race with only one pitstop. be difficult given that the whole tread I was like a DJ on my steering wheel!

Vettel said there were no warning was lost in the incident. It also believes XPB IMAGES signs that his tyres were in trouble: that initial claims that the failure was “The tyre exploded out of the blue. caused by debris were wide of the mark. No signs before that, everything was But analysis of the super-softs used normal. It’s completely a question by Kimi Raikkonen in his opening stint mark on why the tyre failed.” showed high wear, which can make the Vettel does not believe that Ferrari rubber susceptible to debris or damage was pushing the boundaries by trying suffered by running over kerbs. ROWLINSON/LAT Force India radio-ban for calls review following Perez crash informed by race control not Bob Fernley says hewas Grand Prixcrash. behind hislast-lap Austrian Perez ofthebrake issue unable to informSergio restrictions after being FIA to review F1’s radio FORCE INDIAWANTS THE F1 Deputy team principal /AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIXREPORT after suspension failures his RedBull’s front suspensionbroke in the kerbs after Friday practice, when with aQ1breakage. Sergio Perez hadto park hisForce India the rear suspensiononbothcars, while practice, forcing Mercedes to strengthen running over a kerb at Turn2infinal exiting Turn8. he ran over theraised yellow kerbing Q1 after hissuspensionfailed when Austrian Grand Prix. to crash outofqualifyingat the suspension failure that caused him Bull Ringkerbs “stupid” following the DANIIL KVYAT LABELLEDTHE RED Austrian kerbs criticised kerbs criticised Austrian alsocriticised Nico Rosberg hadasimilaraccident The Toro Rosso driver went offin because we were notallowed radio-communication bit retire dueto asimilarissue. after Hulkenberg hadto the penultimate lap, shortly their brakes. Perez’s failed on Nico Hulkenberg regarding both Perez andteam-mate to pass oninformation to “We’ve got to lookat the track limits,” hesaid. a good compromise to keep usonthe in favour, even after Kvyat’s crash. “It’s FIA kept thekerbs fortherace. during Friday’s drivers’ and the briefing, but thesuspensionfails.” continue because you losetime, don’t lose time. Now ifyou go onthekerb you corner, which iscompletely fine–you have to admitthat it’s stupid. said. “They’ve doneamistake, they should bereviewed. and Mercedes bossToto Wolff saidthey FP1, while Haasdriver Esteban Gutierrez Red Bull’s DanielRicciardo remained There were few objections to thekerbs “Last year we hadAstroturf at that “They shouldtake themoff,” Kvyat under thepretext ofsafety. on additionalmessages to abuse, by teams passing the rules could openthemup that theFIA feelsadjusting safety incontrol.” far. We have to take drivers’ that’s probably alittle bittoo control aboutthat, because brakes are aboutto go. able to tell adriver his onacar butnotbeing seems abitsilly putting a Fernley told Autosport. brakes were critical,” to tell thedrivers their Autosport understands “We needto talk to race “It’s abitworrying. It ‘MEDIOCRE’ DISPLAY BEMOANS SMEDLEY our knowledge oftyre science.” I thinkit’s a different circuit. We need to improve him, buteven withoutthatthepace justwasn’t there. able to make thetyres which is abitstrange last, for was justpretty mediocre throughout. Valtteri wasn’t “mediocre” onefor Williams. chief Rob Smedleycalled thisyear’s race a in 2014,andapodiumfinisher’15.Performance went outdueto highbrake temperatures. the front wing because ofstructural damage, then started from thepitlane,after the team changed ninth place whileFelipe Massaretired. Austrian Grand Prix,asValtteri Bottas clungto WILLIAMS SCORED JUST TWOPOINTS INTHE 3. Suspensionmountsare overstressed andfail 2. Kerb loads transferred through suspension 1. Kerb strikes sendshockloads upthrough thewheel 1 “With theasphaltchanges theyhave madehere, “It was notwhere we needto be,” saidSmedley. “It Williams was contender avictory atthisrace Bottas struggledwithtyre graining whileMassa 2 3

XPB IMAGES DRAWING BOARD By Craig Scarborough

HALO 1: BARCELONA TESTING

HALO 2: FERRARI REVEALS SECOND-GENERATION HEAD SAFETY DEVICE

Although not a design instigated The new halo is lighter and where it joins the upper by Ferrari, it has fallen to the has a slightly diff erent shape hoop, which greatly improves HALO 2: AUSTRIA Italian team to test the new from the pre-season version. visibility for the driver. LIGHTER, BETTER VISIBILITY halo safety structure. The upper hoop is rounder It is expected that the Having been tested before the and more open to aid driver revised halo will be part of the start of the season, the halo has extrication and is also made of 2017 rules. Teams are already undergone revisions and was titanium tube to save weight. spending time researching the brought to Austria for inspection The forward supporting pillar aero eff ect it will have on the by the FIA and safety teams. has been slimmed, particularly rollhoop inlet and rear wing.

McLAREN SLOTS IN A NEW REAR WING

McLaren has kept up an a large two-dimensional outside the wing to pass incessant development rate shape, when the air passing through the duct formed this year, but its Austrian around it is far more by the wing and endplates. rear-wing update was a three-dimensional. This greater flow speeds up particularly notable step, Already we have seen the air and this lowers the going further than any teams make vertical slots pressure below the wing to OLD NEW other team in splitting up in the leading edge of the generate more downforce. the rear-wing endplate. endplate, but McLaren’s trick Such are the size of the Current rules force the has been to make larger slots, the strakes running endplate to have a large slots farther rearward along across the endplate take surface area. This restricts the surface. These slots feed a second function to stiff en the shape of the plate to in higher pressure from the rear-wing structure.

RED BULL’S SHORTER NOSE

Before the GP in May, albeit to the trained eye, rumours circulated that because the new nose is just a another team had passed a few tens of millimetres shorter. crash test with a new nose. Red Bull has invested a Even aft er the outfit was huge amount into a shorter identified as Red Bull and nose that will be redundant the new nose made its with the change in regulations race debut in Canada, the for 2017. But it must feel the diff erence wasn’t obvious. performance gain was worth it OLD NEW It has now become clearer, for such an outlay in resources.

JULY 7 2016 15 F1/AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX REPORT

2 Hulkenberg #27 4 Raikkonen #7 6 Rosberg #6 8 Verstappen #33 10 Massa #19 12 Wehrlein #94 1m09.285s 1m09.901s 1m08.465s 1m11.153s 1m11.977s 1m07.700s

1 Hamilton #44 3 Button #22 5 Ricciardo #3 7 Bottas #77 9 Vettel #5 11 Gutierrez #21 1m07.922s 1m09.900s 1m09.980s 1m10.440s 1m09.781s 1m07.578s

Race results / 71 laps – 190.851 miles Fastest laps

POS DRIVER TEAM FINISH TIME LED TYRES TIME IN PITS POS DRIVER TIME GAP LAP 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1h27m38.107s 22 O 45.027s 1 Hamilton 1m08.411s - 67 2 Max Verstappen Red Bull-Renault +5.719s 5 O 21.945s 2 Rosberg 1m08.491s +0.080s 66 3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari +6.024s 1 21.916s 3 Ricciardo 1m08.770s +0.359s 66 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes +26.710s 39 O O 42.925s 4 Raikkonen 1m08.876s +0.465s 66 5 Red Bull-Renault +30.981s O O 43.467s 5 Verstappen 1m09.618s +1.207s 69 6 Jenson Button McLaren-Honda +37.706s OO 44.894s 6 Gutierrez 1m09.694s +1.283s 55 7 Haas-Ferrari +44.668s O 22.662s 7 Massa 1m09.899s +1.488s 59 8 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso-Ferrari +47.400s O O 22.605s 8 Grosjean 1m09.925s +1.514s 67 9 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes -1 lap O 42.686s 9 Button 1m10.001s +1.590s 70 10 Pascal Wehrlein Manor-Mercedes -1 lap O O 46.351s 10 Perez 1m10.120s +1.709s 66 11 Esteban Gutierrez Haas-Ferrari -1 lap OO 43.974s 11 Sainz 1m10.138s +1.727s 68 12 Jolyon Palmer Renault -1 lap O O O 44.473s 12 Bottas 1m10.210s +1.799s 55 13 Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari -1 lap O O 22.707s 13 Palmer 1m10.228s +1.817s 53 14 Kevin Magnussen Renault -1 lap O O O 49.152s 14 Hulkenberg 1m10.309s +1.898s 53 15 Sauber-Ferrari -1 lap O 47.306s 15 Haryanto 1m10.342s +1.931s 66 16 Rio Haryanto Manor-Mercedes -1 lap O O 48.560s 16 Nasr 1m10.415s +2.004s 46 17 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 69 laps-brakes O O O 43.295s 17 Magnussen 1m10.450s +2.039s 56 18 McLaren-Honda 64 laps-power unit O OO 44.803s 18 Ericsson 1m10.704s +2.293s 58 19 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 64 laps-brakes O O 1m12.015s 19 Wehrlein 1m10.859s +2.448s 67 20 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 63 laps-brakes O O 42.328s 20 Alonso 1m11.020s +2.609s 44 R Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 26 laps-tyre 4 - 21 Vettel 1m11.441s +3.030s 10 R Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2 laps-power loss O - 22 Kvyat 1m18.302s +9.891s 2

WEATHER Cloudy, dry; track 26C, air 15C New Used Ultra SoftSuper Soft Soft Medium Hard Wet Intermediate

25 85% 30 1 32 Hamilton has Mercedes’ 40th win Hamilton now has Number of times McLaren-Honda has scored 25 wins for of the hybrid era as many F1 fastest Hamilton has scored more points Mercedes, the same means it has now laps as fellow converted a pole so far this year than as ’s won 85% of the British champ Nigel position into a lead it did in the whole entire career tally. races since 2014. Mansell (right). LAT during 2016. of last season.

Lap chart / What happened, when

1 5 10 1520 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 71 Hamilton

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P Pitstop C Crash M Mechanical failure + Penalty Safety car Car lapped

16 JULY 7 2016 14 Alonso #14 16 Perez #11 18 Ericsson #9 20 Haryanto #88 22 Kvyat #26 1m08.154s no time 1m08.418s 1m08.026s 1m08.409s SEASON 13 Grosjean #8 15 Sainz #55 17 Magnussen #20 19 Palmer #30 21 Nasr #12 1m07.850s no time 1m07.941s 1m07.965s 1m08.446s STATS

Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Qualifying 3 Drivers’ championship POS DRIVER TIME POS DRIVER TIME POS DRIVER TIME 1 Rosberg 153 1 Rosberg 1m06.516s 1 Hamilton 1m06.228s 1 Hamilton 1m07.922s 2 Hamilton 142 2 Vettel 1m06.761s 2 Rosberg 1m06.403s 2 Rosberg 1m08.465s 3Vettel 96 3 Hamilton 1m06.947s 3 Vettel 1m06.602s 3 Hulkenberg 1m09.285s 4 Raikkonen 96 5 Ricciardo 88 4 Verstappen 1m07.131s 4 Ricciardo 1m06.840s 4 Vettel 1m09.781s 6 Verstappen 72 Bottas Verstappen 5 Button 1m09.900s 5 1m07.148s 5 1m06.866s 7 Bottas 54 6 Raikkonen 1m07.240s 6 Bottas 1m06.911s 6 Raikkonen 1m09.901s 8 Perez 39 7 Hulkenberg 1m07.385s 7 Raikkonen 1m06.940s 7 Ricciardo 1m09.980s 9 Massa 38 8 Massa 1m07.419s 8 Massa 1m07.145s 8 Bottas 1m10.440s 10 Grosjean 28 9 Ricciardo 1m07.500s 9 Hulkenberg 1m07.257s 9 Verstappen 1m11.153s 11 Kvyat 22 12 Sainz 22 10 Wehrlein 1m07.565s 10 Button 1m07.572s 10 Massa 1m11.977s 13 Hulkenberg 20 11 Sainz 1m07.618s 11 Gutierrez 1m07.578s 14 Alonso 18 12 Button 1m07.653s 12 Wehrlein 1m07.700s 15 Button 13 13 Perez 1m07.657s 13 Grosjean 1m07.850s 16 Magnussen 6 14 Gutierrez 1m07.660s 14 Alonso 1m08.154s 17 Wehrlein 1 18 Vandoorne 1 15 Grosjean 1m07.662s 15 Sainz no time 19 Gutierrez 0 16 Alonso 1m07.671s 16 Perez no time 20 Palmer 0 17 Magnussen 1m07.941s 21 Ericsson 0 18 Palmer 1m07.965s 22 Nasr 0 19 Haryanto 1m08.026s 23 Haryanto 0 20 Kvyat 1m08.409s Speed Manor 206.7mph 21 Ericsson 1m08.418s trap Constructors’ 22 Nasr 1m08.446s Mercedes 206.2mph championship Fastest WEATHER Mixed; track 52C, air 27C (all sessions) 1 Mercedes 295 for each Force India 205.6mph 2 Ferrari 192 constructor 3 Red Bull 168 in qualifying Ferrari 205.2mph Race Briefi ng 4 Williams 92 Williams 205.0mph 5 Force India 59 FRIDAY PRACTICE 6 Toro Rosso 36 ALFONSO CELIS replaced Perez in the Force India. Haas 203.4mph 7 McLaren 32 8 Haas 28 GRID PENALTIES Red Bull 202.5mph 9 Renault 6 VETTEL 5 places (gearbox change) 10 Manor 1 ROSBERG 5 places (gearbox change) Renault 202.2mph 11 Sauber 0 PALMER 3 places (failing to slow for yellows) NASR 3 places (failing to slow for yellows) Sauber 201.4mph HARYANTO 3 places (failing to slow for yellows) McLaren 200.6mph Wins KVYAT Pitlane start (change of survival cell) Rosberg 5 RACE PENALTIES Toro Rosso 199.5mph Hamilton 3 ROSBERG 10 seconds (causing a collision). Verstappen 1 GROSJEAN 5 seconds (speeding in the pitlane).

Fastest laps Free practice 1 Free practice 2 Free practice 3 Rosberg 4 Hamilton 2 POS DRIVER TIME POS DRIVER TIME POS DRIVER TIME Hulkenberg 1 1 Rosberg 1m07.373s 1 Rosberg 1m07.967s 1 Vettel 1m07.098s Kvyat 1 2 Hamilton 1m07.730s 2 Hamilton 1m07.986s 2 Raikkonen 1m07.234s Ricciardo 1 3 Vettel 1m08.022s 3 Hulkenberg 1m08.580s 3 Hamilton 1m07.308s 4 Raikkonen 1m08.222s 4 Vettel 1m08.589s 4 Ricciardo 1m07.639s Pole positions 5 Ricciardo 1m08.528s 5 Ricciardo 1m08.649s 5 Verstappen 1m07.761s Hamilton 5 6 Sainz 1m08.803s 6 Sainz 1m08.713s 6 Bottas 1m07.814s Rosberg 3 7 Massa 1m08.824s 7 Verstappen 1m08.761s 7 Massa 1m07.831s Ricciardo 1 8 Verstappen 1m08.962s 8 Raikkonen 1m08.820s 8 Hulkenberg 1m08.285s 9 Kvyat 1m08.990s 9 Bottas 1m08.941s 9 Button 1m08.304s Qualifying 10 Bottas 1m08.998s 10 Button 1m08.994s 10 Alonso 1m08.327s head-to-head 11 Grosjean 1m09.078s 11 Alonso 1m09.075s 11 Perez 1m08.442s ROS 4 5 HAM 12 Hulkenberg 1m09.280s 12 Massa 1m09.184s 12 Gutierrez 1m08.475s VET 7 2 RAI 13 Button 1m09.365s 13 Kvyat 1m09.207s 13 Wehrlein 1m08.534s MAS 2 7 BOT 14 Alonso 1m09.567s 14 Perez 1m09.226s 14 Grosjean 1m08.550s RIC 5 0 VES RIC 4 0 KVY 15 Magnussen 1m09.707s 15 Magnussen 1m09.525s 15 Magnussen 1m08.569s PER 5 4 HUL 16 Wehrlein 1m09.775s 16 Palmer 1m10.020s 16 Kvyat 1m08.786s MAG 7 2 PAL 17 Palmer 1m09.851s 17 Wehrlein 1m10.034s 17 Palmer 1m08.939s KVY 2 3 SAI 18 Ericsson 1m09.929s 18 Gutierrez 1m10.138s 18 Sainz 1m09.008s VES 3 1 SAI 19 Gutierrez 1m10.110s 19 Ericsson 1m10.140s 19 Haryanto 1m09.116s ERI 7 2 NAS ALO 6 2 BUT 20 Nasr 1m10.314s 20 Grosjean 1m10.400s 20 Ericsson 1m09.137s BUT 0 1 VAN 21 Haryanto 1m10.493s 21 Nasr 1m10.444s 21 Nasr 1m09.557s HAR 4 5 WEH 22 Celis 1m10.860s 22 Haryanto 1m11.328s 22 Rosberg 1m10.959s GRO 6 3 GUT WEATHER Sunny, dry; track 31C, air 19C WEATHER Cloudy, mixed; track 43C, air 24C WEATHER Sunny, dry; track 41C, air 24C

JULY 7 2016 17 F1/AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX REPORT Wehrlein’s star turn

Merc guys made headlines, but they weren’t as good as the bloke in the Manor By Ben Anderson, Grand Prix Editor @BenAndersonAuto MERCEDES FERRARI WILLIAMS

LEWIS NICO SEBASTIAN KIMI VALTTERI FELIPE HAMILTON ROSBERG VETTEL RAIKKONEN BOTTAS MASSA 9Admitted to being 7Rosberg’s weekend 7Cannot be blamed 6Wasn’t at Vettel’s 5 Was looking 7Was a distant 10th “way off” the pace seemed to be for the gearbox- level in the dry competitive in in Q3 in rapidly on Friday but turned it unravelling spectacularly change penalty that parts of qualifying, but qualifying until the rain improving conditions, not around superbly in when he suffered consigned him to ninth on was only a tenth slower in came at the end of Q2. helped by starting his qualifying. The race got suspension failure in FP3, the grid, but admitted not changeable Q3. Got stuck Didn’t help his own cause crucial last lap before the away from him, but not copped a grid penalty, taking enough risk in the behind Button early on in with a trip through the rest. Felt Williams’s new really through his own and qualified behind mixed conditions of Q3, the race, before becoming gravel after switching to front wing was better fault. Charged brilliantly Hamilton. But he raced where he ended up well embroiled in a long game slicks in Q3. Struggled in but it hampered his race, to challenge Rosberg, well – for 70 of 71 laps at adrift of the Mercedes of tyre-management the race, slipping back on forcing him to start from before they collided. least. Ultimately showed drivers. Can’t be faulted chase with the Red Bulls. lap one before graining pitlane after the team Can perhaps be criticised flawed judgment at the for what happened in the He lost out narrowly: too left him fending off discovered damage and for making himself crucial moment and paid race. Was minding his many laps bottled up Wehrlein’s Manor, on a had to replace it. Brake vulnerable trying to a heavy price for trying to business tidily when his behind Ricciardo let track where Williams has fade eventually forced pass on outside line. cling to his lead. right-rear tyre exploded. Verstappen off the hook. been a podium contender. his retirement. RED BULL FORCE INDIA RENAULT

DANIEL MAX SERGIO NICO KEVIN JOLYON RICCIARDO VERSTAPPEN PEREZ HULKENBERG MAGNUSSEN PALMER 698767Looked very fast Almost matched Was within a tenth Mastered the Renault was Is feeling much in wet conditions, Ricciardo in Q2, but of Hulkenberg after difficult conditions stronger in happier with his and had it stayed that way paid the price for late the first runs in Q1, before of qualifying, making his qualifying here but still car and lapped within through Q3 might have switch to slicks in Q3 and his rear suspension failed switch to slicks earlier 0.270s away from making 0.024s of Magnussen in troubled the front row. being too soon across the over the exit kerb at than the rest and thus Q2, though Magnussen qualifying, but loses marks Red Bull switched to slicks line for his flying lap, Turn 1, consigning him getting a crucial extra lap could have been closer for speeding under yellows too late, but Ricciardo’s which is why he was so far to 16th. Blitzed the first in Q3 that put him on the without a mistake on his in Q1, which dropped him sole flying lap was close to off his team-mate. Made lap of the race to rise to front row after Rosberg’s best lap. Penalty for behind Ericsson. Was beating Raikkonen’s and up for that with another 11th and was close to penalty was applied. After blocking Wehrlein was tracking Magnussen in the Button’s. Race was accomplished race, built pipping the penalised that brilliance the race costly, dropping him race too, but probably disappointing, though. on a strong first lap, Grosjean to eighth before was a disaster. Made a behind team-mate Palmer wouldn’t have beaten him Couldn’t quite live with brilliant tyre management his brakes failed on the poor start and his car ate after their second stops without Magnussen’s time his team-mate’s pace and well-judged defence penultimate lap. A cruel through tyres, then brake and miring him behind penalty. Got past Nasr’s or tyre management. of his position. end to a strong race. fade forced him out. struggling Hulkenberg. Sauber on track at least.

18 JULY 7 2016 Wehrlein was excellent in qualifying and race HONE/LAT

TORO ROSSO SAUBER McLAREN

DANIIL CARLOS FELIPE MARCUS JENSON FERNANDO N/A KVYAT SAINZ JR NASR ERICSSON BUTTON ALONSO Suffered a puncture on his 9Red Bull’s early 6The Sauber was a 5107Thought it was Button was Was within a few first Q1 run, then railed confirmation of genuine top-10 car possible to be at fantastic in Q3, hundredths of against the Red Bull Ring’s Sainz’s 2017 STR deal on this circuit last year, Renault’s level without lapping second fastest on Button in Q1, but tyre “stupid” kerbs after shows the strength of his but way off the pace this the yellow flags that intermediates at one mix-up for Q2 left him suspension failure pitched recent form. Engine woes season. Nasr was another spoiled the end of Q1, but stage. The team called his running on old rubber and him off. To suggestions ruined qualifying, but he to get penalised for admitted there was no switch to slicks, but the second run before the rain that it might be better drove combatively in the speeding under yellows in way Sauber could reach final lap that put him fifth came was undone by to stay off them, he race, rising to 10th on lap qualifying, but he was Wehrlein’s Manor here. was all his own work. yellow flags. Raced responded that was one. A slow pitstop put slowest anyway. The race The race was difficult, as Defence against faster reasonably, though was “pussy”. Started from him back to 17th, but he was much better, and he Ericsson struggled with cars in the race was good, passed by Perez and later pitlane in rebuilt car, but stormed through again, split the with his front tyres. He couldn’t and decisive overtaking Sainz too. Was fending off retired after two laps with passing Ericsson, Palmer, a one-stop strategy – keep pace with the after first stop was Bottas and Wehrlein for a loss of power, so a fair Magnussen, Hulkenberg though arguably he Renaults and was steadily impressive too. Couldn’t the final point when his rating is impossible. and Alonso on track. should have beaten both. caught by Haryanto. have done better. battery failed. MANOR HAAS TOP 10 AVERAGE RATING

RIO PASCAL ROMAIN ESTEBAN HARYANTO WEHRLEIN GROSJEAN GUTIERREZ 41087Was close to Was brilliant in Grosjean struggled Like Grosjean, Wehrlein early in qualifying, not to get the most Gutierrez found the Q1, but a scruffy lap left far off making the top 10. out of the ultra-soft tyre, ultra-soft tyre “confusing”, him scrabbling while his Thought his race “was going off at the start of Q2 but coped well to record team-mate made Q2 done” after dropping and then having to set a his best Saturday result of easily. Sped under yellows almost 12s off the back of time with a damaged floor the year, only 0.006s shy trying again, but still the pack under the safety while rain fell. But the of Q3 – a good effort after 8.1 7.9 7.9 7.8 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.1 missed the cut. Early race car, thanks to the timing race was much, much technical problems in pace didn’t seem unduly of his second pitstop, but better. Did just enough to practice. The race began SAINZ

affected by electronics the race came back to him cancel out a penalty for disastrously when VETTEL BOTTAS BOTTAS ALONSO ALONSO BUTTON BUTTON ROSBERG

glitch and he caught as others pitted later. His pitlane speeding, and anti-stall kicked in. HAMILTON WEHRLEIN RICCIARDO RICCIARDO

Ericsson quickly at the pace in catching Alonso managed his tyres very Recovered decently, VERSTAPPEN end, but Wehrlein was in and matching Bottas at well to bag another but this was another a different league here. the end was impressive. strong points finish. missed opportunity.

JULY 7 2016 19 20 JULY 72016 PIT + PADDOCK

NEWS O DEBATE O CONTROVERSY O OPINION O FEEDBACK h I’ uht eue The FIA’s push tosecure FIA SPORTS CONFERENCE being promoted to theregion’s children. a recent tripto Tibet, where karting isnow the grass level,” headdedbefore referring to very important to develop motorsports at can aspire to have aFormula 1race, soit’s important inany country. Notevery country everyone, inallparts of theworld. to ensure that motorsport isaccessible to of these discussions. For theFIA, itisimportant meet andsetupinnovative projects asaresult a platform forexchanges, to enablepeopleto Todt said: “We designed thisconference as sustainable championshipsinemerging markets. circuit forcars orkarts, orinstituting safeand their territories, beitby buildinga rudimentary establish someformofcompetition within the FIA’s national sportingauthorities to Past, Present andFuture ofMotorsport’. factory, was ‘Passion andInnovation: The previously beentheFiat Group’s Lingotto in thehistoric Centro Congressi inwhat had initiative to increase interest inmotorsport. Sports Conference last monthaspart ofits THE FIA HOSTED ITS FOURTH ANNUAL WARNER/LAT “For me, access to motorsport isvery In hisopeningaddress, FIA president Jean The thrust oftheconferences isto encourage The themeforthethree-day seminar, held has talent can have thechance to get into We have to have asportwhere anyone who conference isinhelpingto buildstrong clubs. day two, said: “The positive after-effect ofthe Stoker, who hosted apanel discussionon president of theFIA’s Historic Commission. Paolo Cantarella, theformerFiat CEO and now Technologies director Caroline Hargrove and and Paolo Pininfarina, plusMcLaren Advanced , legendary designers Giorgetto Giugiaro James Allison, race-car constructor GianPaolo Allan McNishandEmanuelePirro. boss , andLeMansheroes , Motorsport inAugust), Toro Rosso (who joins theWoking team from team bossMartinWhitmarsh, hissuccessor commercial guruZakBrown, formerMcLaren four-time F1championSebastian Vettel, as thepremier feedercategory. governing body’s pushto re-establish F2 more spectacular World Rally Cars” andthe outlined plansfor “a new generation ofeven while respecting safety requirements”, and which will “make theshow even more exciting FIA deputy president forsport Graham Day two featured Ferrari technical director Speakers ontheopeningday included Todt alsopointed to the2017 F1regulations, Formula E is one of the series helping develop new technologies EBREY/SILVERSTONE CLASSIC EBREY/SILVERSTONE

Historic racing remains a big draw for fans

Hybrid power has attracted manufacturers to sportscar racing S BLOXHAM/LAT

Todt wants motorsport to be accessible XPB IMAGES motorsport’s future continues

this sport, where it’s not about family history or high-tech jobs that also protect our industry.” championships. “For both of them you have to connections, a sport where it’s all about talent. Allison also referred to the current crop of F1 have efficient drivetrains, efficient cars,” he said. We have that [now], but we can do more.” as “exotic and remarkable beasts”, with the “magic number for thermal efficiency being Historic attraction Relevance of racing 50% where a decent road car is in the low 30s”. Cantarella talked of the popularity of historic Fiat Group CEO and Ferrari president Sergio FIA head of safety presented festivals, such as the upcoming Silverstone Marchionne delivered the keynote address, an overview on safety research by the FIA Classic, before issuing a warning: “Historic during which he pointed to motorsport as being and its partners, including studies into head racing can play a huge role in attracting people “one of the most important drivers of progress, protection, crash analysis via accident data to the sport, but we are also facing a risk. not only on the development recorders, high-speed cameras “In some ways we can become victims of our of street cars, but on the and in-ear accelerometers, own success. At the top end, the value of the production process itself. “No other sport and the introduction of new cars has increased dramatically, so many of the “Racing is a large side-impact protection collectors are not racing the cars, but giving laboratory where excellence has the same packages for World Rally Cars. them to professionals who tend to win. The in construction and design The final plenary session, other issue is the idea of ‘developing’ historic have yielded some of the relevance to held after a morning dedicated cars, making them faster than they should be.” finest examples of automotive to the latest edition of Details on how these issues will be addressed engineering,” he added. technology” MotorEx – an exhibition have yet to emerge, but the World Motor Sport Stoker talked about the key of motorsport products – Council did recently approve a plan to modify role motorsport can play in progressing certain examined the future of motorsport, with the Historic Technical Passport system, which areas, including preservation of the environment. branding, new media and gaming experts allows historic cars to compete internationally. “Corporate social responsibility has become joining James Barclay (Jaguar Formula E) Among the changes is a reduction in the average so visible in the public eye, and what is unique and Kees van der Grint, vice-president of fee by 10% to “help encourage further growth about motorsport is that we have the ability the FIA Karting Commission, rounding in historic motorsport”. to drive change,” said Stoker. “No other sport off the conference. The changes are subject to the approval of the has that same relevance to STEM [science, Lucas di Grassi, a winner in both the World FIA General Assembly in December. The 2017 technology, engineering and mathematics], Endurance Championship and Formula E, FIA Sport Conference is planned for Geneva. and if we capitalise on that we are creating pointed to similarities between the two FIA DIETER RENCKEN

JULY 7 2016 21 NEXT YEAR CONTROL TYRE FOR WRC EYES 22 DAVID EVANS of theWRCtale? and entertaining facet an increasingly exciting to focus onencouraging better for thepromoter wouldn’titbe easy buck, Instead offocusing onthe no senserightnow. commercially driven. lies: WRCPromoter is where theproblem Promoter –andthat’s the middleman–WRC except itiscuttingout DMACK isdoingthatnow, and OttTanak. But bring onHaydenPaddon Milanese cash helped 2008 and’10,whenthe Driver schemebetween seen viathePirelli Star to thechampionship–as investment itwouldbring for acontrol tyre isthe later thisseason. on theasphaltrounds Wales andpossiblyeven French rival inFinland, is ready to challenge its 34). AndtheBritishfirm last weekend (seepage inPolandthe keystory challenge Michelinwas nowhere in2011to DMACK’s risefrom hardlyare surprising. Poland, suchfeelings open competition. favour ofremaining with almost unanimouslyin parkWRC service is the first timesince 2010. supplier intheseriesfor format orrunasingle to maintain anopen-tyre next monthonwhether make adecisioninthe from nextseason. return to acontrol tyre Championship could THE WORLD RALLY PIT +PADDOCK WRC A control tyre makes The onlythinggoing On theback of Rally Opinion withinthe WRC Promoter will JULY 72016

McKLEIN /LAT GP2 cars to stay next season to Dragon Formula E entry to Dragon Eentry Formula FORMULA E GP2 drivers Jerome d’Ambrosio andLoicDuval retained. powertrain willbebadged thePenske 701-EV, withcurrent be renamed Faraday Future . Its inaugural the 2015-16 FEteams’ standings andclaimedonewin–will offi asits global chiefbrand andcommercial company to enter FEasacompetitor. has backing from China, becomes thefi via atechnical partnership with Dragon Racing. Faraday Future willenter Formula Einthe2016-17 season EMERGING UNITEDSTATES MANUFACTURER Council announced last December that body’s new Formula 2championship. to rebrand theseries asthegoverning FIA more timeto negotiate withGP2 a knock-on effectisthat itgives the the current economic situation, but Autosport that thisisbecause of the endof2017 season. current cars foranextra year, until THE GP2SERIES WILL KEEPITS USA manufacturer commits commits USA manufacturer The Jay Penske-owned Dragon –which fi Last monthitannounced ex-Ferrari F1team principal Faraday, which was foundedasrecently as2014and Since theFIA World Motor Sport GP2 bossBrunoMicheltold cer, andtheItalian willhead uptheFEprogramme. rst US car nished fourth in nished fourthin talk oftheFIA potentially going it are butthere ongoing, hasbeen of self-governance. better offinits current situation WMSC meetingthat theseries is known to have told asubsequent Partners, andBernie Ecclestone is commercial-rights holderCVC Capital GP2, these have madelittle progress. negotiations were proceeding with It isunderstood that negotiations GP2 ispart oftheportfolioF1 SCOTT MITCHELL season tests at Donington Park inAugust andSeptember. understood that theteam could wait untilafter thepre- last weekend forits return to motorsport inFE, butitis the Britishmanufacturer to announce oneofits drivers powertrain willbecalled theJaguarI-Type 1. Someexpected drivers’ title, willnow beknown asNextEV NIO. Jean-Eric Vergne hasbeenmooted asapotential replacement. but driver Antonio Felix daCosta willpart withtheteam. entry inseason three. Mark Preston willremain asprincipal Media Capital, Team Aguriwillbereplaced by theTecheetah The entry list alsoconfi NEXTEV TCR, which ran NelsonPiquetJrto theinaugural Following thesaleofits entry to Shanghai-based China MARCUS SIMMONS racing in2018.” of timeto seehow things are for new cars fornext year, to give abit it was better notto have to buy two budget inGP2, andinGP3aswell. of drivers ready to come andcover the careful because there are notthousands doing fi alone withits own F2category. “After discussingwiththeteams Michel said: “Even iftheseries is rmed that JaguarRacing’s fi ne we always needto bequite rst FE

S BLOXHAM/LAT initial commitment to race theFord GT in2016-17. means afurther twoseasons havebeenadded to the it took GTE intheLe Pro Mans24Hours victory (below), of 2019.Themove,announced lessthantwoweeks after and IMSASportsCarSeriesGT programmes untiltheend Ford hasextended itsWorld Endurance Championship FORD COMMITS TO LEMANSUNTIL2019 his release bytheteam ahead ofLe Mans. Nathanael Berthonfor thefirst twoWECraces priorto at theNurburgring onJuly24.Hetakes theseat filledby and Roman RusinovinthefinalsixWECrounds, starting will share theG-DriveORECA-Nissan05withRene Rast World Endurance Championship. The25-year-old Briton Racing for ORECALMP2line-up theremainder ofthisyear’s Alex Brundlehastaken thevacant seat intheG-Drive BRUNDLE GETS G-DRIVELMP2SEAT Ducati for thethird timethisyear. Stoner tested worldchampionCasey two-time with over thecourse oftwodaysatMisano, where retired 2017. TheMoto2 titlecontender turned more than100laps test before graduating to thechampionshipwithApriliain British riderSamLowes hascompleted hisfirst MotoGP LOWES COMPLETES FIRST MOTOGP RUN second, withDanLloyd’s Eurotech Hondathird. Motorbase Ford Focus Jordan ofAndrew byalmosthalfa who issixthinthestandings atthehalfway stage, beat the Championship’s tyre test atSnetterton Ingram, lastweek. Ingram topped thetimesduringBritishTouring Car Speedworks Motorsport Avensis driverTom INGRAM TOPS BTCC TEST AT SNETT and Montreal (July 15-16). (June 10),anotherTBC(June 24),Brussels(July 1) venue (April22),Monaco (May13),Paris (May20),Berlin (Nov 12),BuenosAires (Feb 18),Mexico City(April1),aTBC York onJuly29-30.Inbetween itwilltravel to Marrakech Kong onOctober 9andendwithadouble-header inNew FE willkickoffitsexpanded scheduleinHong 12-event Formula E’s 2016-17calendar hasfinallybeenapproved. NEW FORMULA ECALENDAR CONFIRMED for athird season after claimingsixthinthedrivers’ table. Stephane Sarrazin confirmed hewillremain withVenturi the standings andwas oneofthestars ofthecampaign. for the2016-17season. TheDutchman finished12thin willcontinue withtheAndretti Formula Eteam FRIJNS ANDSARRAZIN RE-SIGNED motorsport for more than20years. 1.6km (onemile)oftrack, whichhasnothosted Permission wouldbeneededfor theuseofadditional for nextyear’s Austrian Grand PrixattheRed BullRing. Osterreichring isunderreview, andcould beinplace The reopening ofthewestern sectionoftheold OSTERREICHRING LOOP COULD RETURN IN THEHEADLINES

XPB IMAGES each other atSilverstone? beallowedto raceWill they time ineightweeksAustria. Rosberg collided for thesecond HamiltonLewis andNico MERCEDES RIVALRY RADIO COVERAGE LIVE ON BBC RADIO 5LIVE RACE SUNDAY FP3 SATURDAY FP1 FRIDAY VIAL VIAL AVAILABLE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE Themes to watch Previous winners UK starttimes Tyre allocation RACE LAP RECORD QUALIFYING LAP RECORD 2015 POLEPOSITION LENGTH SILVERSTONE ADMDU OTSPRSF UTASF NEMDAEWET INTERMEDIATE ULTRA-SOFT SUPER-SOFT SOFT MEDIUM HARD 1000 1000 1300 9 8 QUALIFYING FP2 F1ANDCHANNEL4 3.660miles 1400 6 AVAILABLE British Prix Grand Fernando Alonso1m30.874s(2010) NUMBEROFLAPS 1300 Lewis HamiltonLewis 1m32.248s 7 AVAILABLE Lewis HamiltonLewis 1m29.607s(2013) 10 claim to a contract extension? pull ahead to strengthen his on96points.Can theFinn level Vettel andKimiRaikkonen are Ferrari team-mates Sebastian VETTEL vRAIKKONEN 11 F1 PREVIEW July 8-10 July 5 52 12 3 1 4 2 13 14 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Fernando Alonso Kimi Raikkonen Lewis Hamilton Sebastian Vettel Fernando Alonso Mark Webber Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton 18 season-best sixthinAustria. but he’ll aim for pointsafter a of astretch for JensonButton, British GPpodiummightbeabit Ending a16-year wait for afirst POINTS FOR BUTTON? 16 R DTCIN ZONE DETECTION DRS DRS ACTIVATION ZONE JULY 72016 17 Red Bull McLaren Mercedes Renault Ferrari Red Bull Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes Mercedes 15 23

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Costs of Formula 1 beggar

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When it comes to cost-saving in F1, the Here’s F1’s real problem Formula E shunt Please, please, please, Mercedes, token efforts over the last few years have According to James Allen, it will require does a disservice to do not implement team orders, you obviously failed to make any impression. 17 trucks and 51 drivers simply to motorsport, says just need to reiterate to both drivers The cover story of the June 30 issue relocate McLaren’s hospitality unit this reader Bodman that they must leave racing room. brings home the fact that the costs to week! Forget for a moment intra-team Paul Hewitt produce the cars are simply astonishing disputes, dodgy tyres and disappearing Luton, Bedfordshire and it’s no wonder some teams are TV audiences, where’s F1’s real problem? struggling to make ends meet. Read the above again. Wrong message, bad image If F1 really wants to keep a lid on Bob McEwan The incident on the first lap of the costs, why are they spending so much Rochford, Essex Formula E race at Battersea Park last on the ridiculous front and rear wings Sunday in which Lucas di Grassi ran into and other aerodynamic monstrosities? No team orders, please the back of Sebastien Buemi’s car had Simplifying the wings and banning It appears Nico Rosberg is so desperate echoes of the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix, additional aero appendages would save to win the world championship and beat in which Ayrton Senna ‘drove’ Alain millions, and that’s only for starters Lewis Hamilton at all costs that he has Prost’s Ferrari off the track at the first – £35k for a steering wheel beggars tried to emulate Lewis’s aggressive style corner, with unfortunate consequences belief. All these things do nothing to but has not learned how to do it without for a fair championship fight. help with the quality of racing, so why causing a shunt. He needs to learn that , commentating can’t they be simplified and cheaper? he has to leave racing room. for ITV, certainly thought di Grassi’s We don’t want F1 to become a spec The stewards should have given him actions were deliberate. However, the series, but a complete overhaul of F1 is a much stiffer penalty considering his penalty that the stewards applied was required; we just need those in charge previous actions at Barcelona. As it of no consequence, and this sends out to get a grip and get it done. We want is we are left with the prospect of completely the wrong message to other more teams, not fewer. Mercedes implementing team orders drivers. What an unfortunate image of Michael Skeet and robbing us of what should be a our sport was provided to spectators Southampton sensational duel for the crown. and television viewers. The final lap of the Austrian Grand Prix was not much better. Andrew Bodman Northampton HAVE YOUR SAY, GET IN TOUCH CORRECTION

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Jenson’s GB jinx

Veteran British F1 star Jenson Button has never taken home a trophy from the . What chance this year will be different?

By Ian Parkes, Chief F1 Correspondent @ianparkesf1

JENSON BUTTON DOES NOT BELIEVE IN LUCK – “I love the circuit. It’s certainly been kind to me in terms good or bad – or whether he’s jinxed when it comes of outright pace, it’s just the results haven’t been there.” to the British Grand Prix. But there surely cannot be a Button recognises the fact that, barring quite remarkable driver more unfortunate with regard to his home event circumstances, this year is unlikely to yield that elusive than the 36-year-old Formula 1 veteran. podium. McLaren and Honda may have been making steady Button goes into this weekend’s race at Silverstone progress in the second year of their reunion, but it’s not still waiting to experience what for him would be one of enough, he feels, to push him into top-three contention. the emotional highs of his remarkable F1 career. It’s an “We won’t be fi ghting for a podium,” he says. “There is astonishing fact that, in 16 previous British GPs, Button another British guy [Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton] who will be. has never stood on the podium, never mind its top step. “I won’t have that opportunity, which is a shame. All I know He has never once savoured looking out at a sea of fans is I can only do my best with what I have available. That’s all along the pit straight at Silverstone. I can do for my home crowd.” There have been near-misses. Button fi nished fourth As has become customary over the past few years, the on three occasions – 2004, ’10 and ’14 – and came agonisingly question of whether this will be his last British GP is raised. close on a couple of occasions. In 2010 he missed out on Button has managed to confound the critics and doubters third place by 0.679s to Nico Rosberg, while four years later and hold on to his seat at McLaren, a team with which he it was Mark Webber who denied him by just under a second. has spent the past six and a half years. Arguably, Button’s title-winning year of 2009 should have But the uncertainty over whether he’ll be with McLaren presented the best opportunity to break his duck. He went for an eighth campaign is growing. Reserve driver Stoffel into the race as favourite Vandoorne is waiting in the after winning six of the fi rst wings, after proving himself seven races of the season, “We hope the sporting admirably on his F1 debut but Britain’s notoriously earlier this season when he inclement weather turned claimed 10th in Bahrain against him as the much gods look down and deputising for the injured cooler climes of that weekend Fernando Alonso. did not suit the previously smile upon him” There’s no doubt that dominant – and eventually Button still has the talent, championship-winning – Brawn BGP 001. as he proved in Austria last weekend – he qualifi ed a superb In failing to get the tyres to work, Button could only fi fth, reaching Q3 for the fi rst time since the end of 2014, qualify and fi nish sixth, just over fi ve seconds down on then and went on to fi nish sixth. And his hunger to continue team-mate Rubens Barrichello, who managed to claim third. can also not be questioned. And then there was 2011. Button was again in the running It is why, despite Vandoorne pressing to be given his for a podium place until the fi nal round of pitstops, only to be opportunity, Button cannot consider for a second that this sent out by his McLaren crew with his right-front wheel not could be his fi nal British GP. “There’s no point thinking it properly attached, forcing him to retire and park at the pit exit. may be my last because I’d have to go through those That incident is indicative of the trials and tribulations emotions again if it isn’t,” he explains. that Button has endured over the years, and which “In a way you could say it would be a shame if I didn’t appreciably aggrieve him. think of it that way, and it was my last. But then again I “It really hurts,” says Button of his wretched home-podium don’t want to go into the weekend thinking it’s going to drought. “But you know what? I can’t do anything about that be my last and then get to the end of the season and think, right now. You’ve just got to take it. Would I rather win the ‘I actually want to do another year.’ world championship than the British Grand Prix? Of course! “It doesn’t make your fi nal British GP so special then, so I I’ve achieved my main target in Formula 1. go into it just looking for a good weekend with no emotional “But there is one thing missing and that is defi nitely the attachments to it in terms of it being my last race.” British GP. It’s not just the win, it’s even being on the podium. If it is his fi nal British GP, we can only hope the sporting I’ve had a couple of races where it’s been close, such as in gods look down and smile upon him, and provide him with 2011, so it just hasn’t worked out. the podium place he so richly deserves.

JULY 7 2016 27 RAJAN JANGDA/E-RACING.NET 28 FORMULA E JULY 72016 /LONDON Sebastien Buemi andLucas diGrassi overshadowed astunning A controversial Formula Echampionshipshowdown between dramatic decider dramatic pair ofvictories around Battersea Park by Buemi edges By Scott Mitchell, Features Editor

@ScottAutosport JULY 7 2016 29 F 30 FORMULA E rival after rain fellduring qualifying one having started mid-pack behindhis found himselfrepeatedly stymied inrace London –muchquicker –buthehad Buemi level at thetop ofthestandings. pole andthethree points that go withit. Prost, letalonehisrivals, earned him in which heobliterated team-mate Nico Buemi’s titanic qualifyingperformance, the finalrace, aday later, hadeven begun. his slenderlead to three points. held firmto finishfourthandextend opponent forbeing “willing to crash”, criticised by hisRenaulte. wheel onseveral occasions. DiGrassi, ended withtherivals going wheel-to- Lucas diGrassi and Sebastien Buemi rise through thepack by title protagonists 1990 Formula 1replay. made the2015/16 FEshowdown a What happened24hours later firmly

He was quicker thandiGrassi in That said, pole didmore thanjust haul That was slashedto nothingbefore On Saturday simultaneous athrilling, JULY 72016 /LONDON on Saturday. leading theway Prost andSenna thanks to thenames a nostalgic feel races began with Battersea Park season-ending ormula E’s immediate assistance back insixth, his own team-mate DanielAbt outof we were somuchquicker.” of him, hehadnochance because “I knew ifIgot outofTurn3ahead by almost afullsecond from Prost. Turn 3,” saidBuemi, who was onpole handed Buemiakey advantage. he could stay there, butpolehad track when itwas at its wettest. and bothwere forced to take to the WARNER/LAT Di Grassi, third onthegridandwith “I knew hisonly optionwas So ifdiGrassi could get infront the closingstages Le in Mansvictory weeks after losing won thetitle justtwo An emotionalBuemi finale, completing thehomage to one off-track ontheopeninglap ofthe Nicholls asthetitle rivals ended up immediately?” asked commentator Jack nose-first into thebarriers. rear wingandfoundhimselfploughing mounted theback andtore offBuemi’s car, spinningitround astheBrazilian Grassi slammedinto therear ofBuemi’s myself inasafeplace.” brakes to make sure Iwould put lift; Iwent aslate asIcould onthe not save energy ontheleftwhere we said diGrassi. when Irealised Ilocked my wheels,” early compared to meand Nico and Buemi were touching alot. touching alittle bit.” aggressive withhimandwe ended up Prost itwould beastruggle. Iwas very man explained. “I knew ifIwas behind for thenext 33laps,” theAbtAudiSport Prost ifIhadany chance to fightSeb outside heading into Turn3. the Frenchman andthewall onthe Turn 1and2sweeps, andwas between attacked Prost ontherunsthrough the knew ittoo. Hemadeavery good start, “Can you believe it’s happened Those efforts weren’t enough. Di Buemi gave that shortshrift: “I did “Seb braked almost 50metres too Milliseconds later, diGrassi and “I knew Ihadto beaggressive against second sectors oftherace withthree laps – andthensetting the best first and Grassi getting within fourtenths ofthat always looked like therequirement. pace at race power, 170kW, alow-1m24s by MaQing Hua. Based onhispractice first seta1m26.056s, but was baulked DS Virgin Racingcar. was required forSamBird’s stopped next timeround when asafety car and was onan even faster lapthe was never likely to bequickenough) taking first bloodona1m27.037s (that a cat-and-mouse game, withdiGrassi to get out ontrack. Anditproved to be points that itbrings. into oneforfastest lapandthe two third-place finishes, therace turned title oncountback, thanks to more di Grassi inapositionto winthe suspension andall, back aswell. dragged hiscar, broken front-right orange flagandforced to pit. DiGrassi butwaswing, soonshown ablack-and- pack forabriefperiod withoutarear cars. Buemicontinued at theback ofthe Grassi managed to rejoin intheirbattered at Suzuka in1990, bothBuemianddi of motorsport’s most iconic showdowns. He improved to a1m24.582s, withdi Thereafter, Buemitook control. He The two bided theirtime, notrushing And thiswas significant –with Unlike Ayrton SennaandAlainProst by endingtherace witha1m24.150s. championship with somekindofflourish and managed to seal thepoints andthe continued withhisrival outofthecar chance to seal thetitle withvictory, he disappointed at beingrobbed ofthe wall. dobetter.” Icouldn’t was less thananinchfrom every single hundredth outofmy car, the1m24.6s conceded diGrassi. “I squeezed every vacated thecar –championshipover. final sector. Hereturned to thepits and a tenth shy despite apersonal-best complete thelapat that pace and fell remaining. ButtheBrazilian could not It was still somethingofananti- Buemi could. Frustrated and “In astraight fightwe hadnochance,” Nico Prost eased to a“dream” double With thetitlerivals outofthepicture, Di Grassi somehow managed to get back to thepitsinhisfirst car

MAUGER/LAT MAUGER/LAT last race Battersea’s Finale was road, whatentertaining racing itwas. criticism overacircuit confined to apark perimeter ‘in’ London for decades. And, despite fears and here’s to Battersea Park –ithosted thefirst racing London.” Ihopeit’s successful. Inthemeantime, we’re really to going race to try onthestreets of other majorcitiesandnothere. is weakened allthewhileFormula Eisracing in its own,butthecity’s for thatendeavour armoury championship willnotchange publicperception on anybody whosawthemcouldn’t beimpressed. The Battersea Park havebeen,it’s how difficultto believe method oftransport. to beashiftinpublicopiniontowards that streets, asistargeted intheMAQS, there needs about putting100,000electricvehiclesonthe combat pollutionfor several years, butifit’s serious objectives in2016.Thecityhasbeenworkingto have failed to meet theMayor’s AirQualityStrategy the city–based onavariety ofmeasurements – across London pollutionlevels AirQualityNetwork, of howitcombats emissions.According to the has lostanasset initsfightagainst airpollution. a keylocation from thecalendar, whileLondon incredibly tense anddramatic titledeciders –and lost achallengingcircuit –onethat’s hosted two summer. It’s asadstate ofaffairs thatFormula Ehas temporary occupation ofthepark attheheightof a grudge against theelectricsingle-seater series’ thanks to ongoing dissentfrom thosewhobear swansong. AndI’minclinedto agree. Formula Eprepared for Battersea Park’s mistake,” saidseriesbossAlejandro Agag as “I THINKTHEOPPOSITIONHAVE MADEABIG SCOTT MITCHELL Agag says:“We’re lookingto thefuture, and Given howexciting thefour Formula Eraces in London isindesperate needofanoverhaul Battersea’s timeisup, three years too soon, BATTERSEA BYE-BYE JULY 72016 31 WARNER/LAT MAUGER/LAT CAMBIER /MICHELIN 32 than turned around that deficit. Inthe Bird, buthisbrace ofvictories more and 20points inarrears ofthird-placed the last timetheseries willdoso– championship heading to Battersea – double-header), was largely overlooked. the second timeanevent hasbeena of anFEweekend (admittedly only history, claimingthefirst clean sweep field. Andthat means Prost’s bitof stole attention from therest ofthe attempts at fastest laponSunday, Saturday, muchlike thedesperate supposed to beextremely difficult. and fifthonatrack where overtaking is from 10thand12threspectively to fourth between diGrassi and Buemi, who rose climax after athrillingSaturday scrap FORMULA E The Frenchman was fifthinthe That risethrough theorder on JULY 72016 /LONDON his confidence, grabbed that good luck a bitofmisfortune inraces andahitto collecting Buemi. the 34-year-old onhisway to light contact diGrassi madewith in thecarnage, particularly given the fortunate to avoid getting caught up of thecampaign, Prost was incredibly harpooned at thestart ofthefinalrace as they squabbledover seventh. when AbtandRobinFrijns collided car inthesecond halfoftherace five-second margin despite asafety taking victory by acomfortable ease to wintheopeningencounter, top two ashewas to theBritishdriver. end, Prost was almost ascloseto the Prost, frustrated at times thisyear by While Buemiwas uncompromisingly Prost fendedoffBruno Sennawith the Saturday race order inunison had raced upthe Di Grassi andBuemi podium onSaturday maiden Formula E Senna claimeda behave like that.” but doitinafair way. You can’t to win. You can bedesperate to win to doitlike that… hewas sodesperate give uptwice notto [crash]. he was willingto crash. Ihadto brakes somuch, you feelasadriver I went ontheoutside, hereleased the the speed. said. “I wanted to wintherace, Ihad I’m sosadtheway ithappened,” Buemi weekend asawhole. and hisrival’s driving over thefinal enjoyment was tempered by theclash, Swiss driver admitting his immediate And Buemiwas notappeased, the the incident–was beingdiplomatic. 50-second penalty post-race forcausing be proud andtry anotheryear.” and deserved thetitle. We can only had to beSeb. Heisafantastic driver to losethechampionshipto someoneit paid tribute to hisrival, saying: “If Ihad championship-winning trophy. DiGrassi by Buemi, who was presented withhis get muchbetterdon’t thanthis.” was easy; today was easy again. They “The car hasbeenfantastic. Yesterday again, thistime7.6s ahead ofAbt. Duval forninth, Prost won at acanter against thebarrier trying to pass Loic car andathird forFrijns getting pinned Grassi crash, anotherforBird’s stopped Despite asafety car fortheBuemi/di with bothhandsonSunday to dominate. “Today Ihadalittle bitoffear, but “Yesterday when Ifoughthimand “It’s anamazingachievement, but Di Grassi –hitwithapointless Prost was joined onSunday’s podium “It’s beenadream weekend,” hesaid.

CAMBIER /MICHELIN 18 14 Championship 16 laps;R 7 10 5 of power). +1m22.216s; 11 Qualifying 6 1 Prost 56m32.648s ( 2 Race 10 5 18 14 Qualifying Superpole Winner’s average speed Heidfeld Senna Vergne Abt RESULTS O RVRTA A TIME TEAM/CAR DRIVER POS Ma daCosta Duval diGrassi deSilvestro daCosta 5OliverTurvey 15 SimonadeSilvestro 14 NickHeidfeld 13 NelsonPiquet Jr 12 MaQingHua 11 Stephane Sarrazin 10 son’s brace ofwins what hethinksofhis Prost Srshows DanielAbt R Robin Frijns R Loic Duval R Antonio Felix daCosta 6 Lucas diGrassi 4 BrunoSenna 2 Nicolas Prost 1 Sebastien Buemi 5 Mike Conway 9 Jerome d’Ambrosio 8 SamBird 7 Jean-Eric Vergne 3 68;8 1m26.259s. 33 LAPS –59.978MILES) +27.174s;7 1m23.938s;11 1m26.799s;6 Frijns Duval Winner’s average speed 1m23.343s;6 1Prost 1m27.192s

1m35.711s;11 1m24.273s;15 1 Prost 1m23.247s 1m38.501s;15

1Buemi 1m22.106s ROUND 9/9,BATTERSEA PARK (GB),JULY 2-3(33LAPS –59.978MILES) 1m50.455s. daCosta 11laps(accident); R 1Buemi155 60; 9 (GB) (F) (D) Heidfeld (NL) (PRC) ; 2 (BR) (F) (GB) (GB) (D) Vergne Abt (BR) Abt d’Ambrosio Abt (BR) (F) +1m58.324s;12 (CH) 66.710mph. d’Ambrosio 1m29.814s;7 Sarrazin Sarrazin (F) +7.633s;3 (B) (CH) 1m23.494s;7 +1m07.544s;8 56; 10 ; 2 (P) ; 2 ; 2 di Grassi ; 2 Senna Turvey Prost Heidfeld deSilvestro 1m24.311s;16 1m33.660s;16 1m23.952s;12 Abt Sport Dragon Racing NEXTEV TCR Andretti Autosport NEXTEV TCR Team Aguri Venturi Dragon Racing DS Team Aguri Renault e.dams Abt Audi Sport DS Virgin Racing Mahindra Racing Renault e.dams 63.643mph. d’Ambrosio Fastest lap 1m35.727s;12 Bird 1m27.758s;3 Ma 153;3 1m22.878s;3 1m23.969s;3 Vergne ·VnuiV20F-1+15.918s +12.456s ·Venturi VM200-FE-01 ·Venturi VM200-FE-01 Vergne -1lap;13 1m30.453s;8 53. Prost pr R_1 +38.400s +10.908s · Spark SRT_01E · Spark SRT_01E ·NXE C 0 -3laps +52.028s ·NEXTEV TCR 001 ·NEXTEV TCR 001 9laps(accident); R Fastest lap 1m23.783s;8 +22.524s;4 ·AtShefe E119laps-accident ·AbtSchaefflerFE01 Frijns Ma b caflrF0 +8.914s · AbtSchaefflerFE01 Conway Piquet 1m25.783s,76.274mph. ·VnuiV20F-1+12.106s ·Venturi VM200-FE-01 etr M0-E0 23laps-gearbox · Venturi VM200-FE-01 +1m08.002s;9 ·RnutZE1 +10.052s 53m56.653s ·Renault Z.E.15 ·Renault Z.E.15 ·Vri S-1+10.986s ·Virgin DSV-01 ignDV0 +8.195s · Virgin DSV-01 115;4 Conway ·Mhnr 2EETO+1m01.264s ·Mahindra M2ELECTRO Buemi aidaM LCR +5.244s · Mahindra M2ELECTRO 1m36.748s;17 Turvey Turvey ·SakST0E19laps-accident +1m03.079s ·Spark SRT_01E ·Spark SRT_01E Senna 1m24.655s;17 Heidfeld Bird 1m24.054s;13 Duval 1m36.771s;13 Buemi 1m24.150s, 77.754mph. Buemi 1m24.150s,77.754mph. 1m28.284s;4 1m24.279s;4 1m23.183s;4 -1lap;NC Bird 88;5 Piquet Bird +23.290s;5 1m23.930s;9 1m32.367s;9 Piquet d’Ambrosio deSilvestro diGrassi 6laps(throttle stuck/loss +1m14.270s;10 Senna Frijns Frijns diGrassi Conway 1m38.922s; 1m38.922s; Sarrazin Piquet Duval 1m29.500s. 1m24.363s; 1m24.363s; 18laps;NC 83; 6 1m24.171s; 1m24.171s; 1m24.823s; 1m24.823s; 1m37.562s; 1m37.562s; 1m23.245s; 1m23.245s; Sarrazin 1m35.315s; 1m35.315s; +24.984s; +24.984s; 1m23.937s; 1m23.937s; Turvey Buemi 70; 70;

WARNER/LAT him ahead ofHeidfeld intherace. penalty for anunsafe release thathadjumped his second car. Hewas thenhanded aone-second a 50-second penaltyfor usingtoo muchenergy in and Antonio Felix daCosta infifth, Vergne picked up penalties. Alongwithfourth-placed NickHeidfeld Vergne lostaSundaypodiumafter getting two …THEN LOSES SECOND PODIUM… and caused himto crash outofthird place. the closingstages damaged therear ofhiscar also criticisedVergne, sayingrepeated contact in but theBrazilian stillfinishedfourth. OliverTurvey Saturday’s race. Theincidentbroke diGrassi’s wing, an “idiot”after thetwo collided inthesecond halfof Lucas diGrassi labelledJean-Eric Vergne (above) ‘IDIOT’ VERGNESLAMMED… Abt Audi Sportby49pointsinthefinalreckoning. championship withProst’s brace ofwins.Itdefeated The Renault e.dams squadclinchedtheteams’ RENAULT E.DAMS WINSTEAMS’TITLE from fourth onSundayafter alossofpower. Saturday withalast-gasp lossofenergy, thenretired dropped himdowntheorder. SamBird lostfifth on the superpoleonmeritnextday. Alate puncture grid thanksto theweather-hit qualifying,butwas in Turvey earned aseason-best third onSaturday’s LUCKLESS BRITS LOSE OUT on theroad, inherited thefinalpodiumplace. shocked Jerome d’Ambrosio, whofinishedsixth The triopenalisedinSunday’s race meant a D’AMBROSIO LANDS SHOCKPODIUM by theFIA’s international court ofappeal. the teams’ championship. Thecase willbeheard and promoted Dragon aboveDSVirgin to third in have dropped Vergne outofthepointsaltogether – transgression isa50-second penalty, whichwould was Itargues tootheprecedent lenient. for sucha penalty for theunsafe release it because itbelieves The rival Dragon Racing team hasappealed Vergne’s …AND ISAPPEALEDBY DRAGON IN THEHEADLINES JULY 72016

FERRARO/LAT 33 FERRARO/LAT MAUGER/LAT ALL PICS: McKLEIN.DE 34 WRC /POLAND JULY 72016 T anak denied first Tanak deniedfirst what could have beentyre maker DMACK’s first WRC win win by Mikkelsen Tough surface conditions onSunday robbed Ott Tanak of By David Evans, Rallies Editor

@davidevansrally JULY 7 2016 35 ALL PICS: McKLEIN.DE T couldn’t bemorecouldn’t different. DMACK Sardinia. It’s madeforPoland.” event. Thistyre wasn’t madefor good. But…thiswas never ourtarget testing thewater. “OK, it’s really not get apicture ofthefiasco. WRC hacks fumblingwithiPhones to cards. Butitstill must have hurtto see record, that thiscould have beenonthe the event andhe’d admitted, offthe Cormack was themanwearing thetarget. later afinger hadto bepointed. And the inevitable questions, butsooneror slicks down to thecanvas. tyres. Ithadcome back withslicks – DMACK’s brand-new, hard-compound first thingthat morningwearing fourof RS WRC –theonethat hadleftAlghero of Ott Tanak’s M-Sport-builtFord Fiesta out ofthetruck…andturned right!” out ofthetruckandturn left. He’s gone when Iwas leaving; Itold himto come asked mewhere themediazonewas done arunner, hereplied: “No, no. Dick Glenn Patterson was asked ifhisbosshad the team’s communications director to bedodged aslongpossible. When had beenatouch tardy; thefiringline Rally ’s Friday lunchtimemediazone first non-Michelinvictory since 2010. within two stages ofpaying offwiththe last weekend inPoland that plancame worst possiblefashion. world, he’d dropped theball inthe Championship failure. To thewider WRC

Fast forward three weeks andthestory lookgood,”“It doesn’t Cormack said, He’d talked aboutthenew tyres before Tanak didwhat hecould to fendoff Cormack’s coincided withthat Understandably, Cormack’s arrival at Except hehadn’t. Hehadaplan. And /POLAND World Rally the fullglare of office andinto air-conditioned stepped outofhis Dick Cormack team principal Drive DMACK hree weeks ago, for theevent,” hesaid, “like, “We got thetyres forSweden just intime close Cormack was sailingto thewind. the all-new DMACK studded tyre. Prokop was second Super2000homeon Martin Semerad won PWRC andMartin season debut came inSweden, 2011. working withtheguys inChina.” start after I’d spentweeks onend Mk2,” Cormack said. “That was agood of Portugal Revival. Kankkunen winonthe2010Rally its competitive debut withaJuha 2009 andDMACK actually made can’t listen to them.” head against abrickwall. Butyou just it would never work, Iwas banging my gamble. Huge. Somany peopletold me production ofrally tyres. Itwas ahuge China to meetsomepartners inthe he said, “so Icashed that inandwent to 2008, hestopped thinkingaboutit. setting uponhisown. At theendof thinking forquite awhile about was rightforachange. He’d been commitment coming andfeltthetime time, Cormack saw thefirm’s Formula 1 extreme, goes back afew years more. WRC monopoly was beingtested to the brought usto thepointwhere Michelin’s had itnotbeenforahandbrake problem. probably would have won inMikolajki 12 monthsago, when hecould and here andFinland.” “All season, ourplanhasbeento target his lead from fourto 18seconds. three stages, fastest everywhere, building The Estonian hadcompleted theperfect stage, itseemedalongway from Sardinia. board after thefinalSaturday morning delivered inemphatic fashion. Nobody at thetimeknew just how It was even better when thefull WRC “Juha ran thetyres onaFord Escort The first tyres were madethrough “I had£85,000 inmy Pirelli pension,” Having worked forPirelli foralong The DMACK story, theonethat The ‘Tanak to winPoland’ story started “I told you, I,” didn’t grinnedCormack. When Tanak’s timewent uponthe just intime. conditions onSunday pressing through poor worthy winner after but nevertheless was afortunate ripped Tanak’s tyre offitsrim Rutted stages Cormack. “We’d taken the tyres pretty WRC winfortheItalian firm. Delta S4to masterminding winafter stage-specific compounds forLancia’s seen itallinrallying, from cooking Carlisle base. Brivio hasbeenthere and Cormack from Milanto DMACK’s at Pirelli, Fiorenzo Brivio followed the firm’s intention. After three decades on anothercontract that really signalled was good news, butitwas anothername the Drive DMACK World Rally Team. factory-spec Fiesta andafullseason for was timefora fullattack withTanak, a company to flourish, butthisyear it reduced thepressure andallowed the turn,” saidCormack. on which they finishedsixth. fitted to aTanak-driven Fiesta RS WRC, GB, thetyres hadbeenredeveloped and very quickly. By theseason-ending Rally than thehard. Itwas acomplete disaster.” run themedium, which was more durable FIA to askpermissionto letthedrivers to go to Michelin, theteams andthe allowed onechoice oftyre, sowe had were thedays when you were only “We’d got itcompletely wrong. These was destroyed in15 kilometres,” he said. honeymoon was over. “Our hard tyre before that event.” But I’d beenabsolutely shitting myself retention andthetyres gave good grip. so there were noworries aboutstud we hadaload ofsnow onthat event, was thefirst timethetyres ran. Luckily, there was notimeto test. Shakedown They hadthestuds fitted inSweden, but “We’d achieved alotourselves,” said Tanak’s nameonaDMACK contract A step back from World Rally Cars “That was when things started to But DMACK learned –andlearned The next event was Portugal. The BRITS STAR IN SUPPORT CAST

LAST WEEK, A BUNCH OF BRITS WENT TO Poland and delivered the clearest possible message. And, you’ll be relieved to hear, the trip had absolutely nothing to do with Brexit or the European Union. It was more about the foundations for taking on the world. Last week was all about three British drivers demonstrating there’s life in the old island yet when it comes to feeding the . Northern Irishman Jon Armstrong, Englander and Welshman Osian Pryce utterly dominated last week’s second round of the Drive DMACK Fiesta Trophy. While the trio chipped an advantage here or nibbled a tenth off each other there, they hauled tens of seconds out of their rivals from around the world. It was a hugely impressive display, which came as some relief to those from these parts who feel a yearning to hear of more Anglo-Saxon or Celtic names in the sport. Ultimately, any one of the three could and should have won the DMACK Trophy class, but after a drama-filled three days it was “Our hard tyre is just a bit Armstrong who clinched it. Pryce’s victory on the previous round in Portugal, allied to second in Poland, was harder than the Michelin soft, sufficient for him to clinch the first of two prize drives for next season. and our soft is a lot softer” When DMACK revealed plans to split the award into three pairs of prize drives in 2017, DMACK’s Dick Cormack questions were raised. But actually, it’s a of genius. It maintains huge pressure on all the crews for all of the five rounds, while ensuring much as far as we could, bringing but it would have been slow. And because a shocker of a season early doors doesn’t rule production out of China into the UK in of the stiffness in the sidewall, it them out of the running for a factory Ford a deal to use Cooper’s factory. What we wouldn’t offer the same traction; Fiesta R5 on later rounds. needed was something to send a signal flexibility is reduced and that takes This year’s DMACK series has the makings to manufacturers and get us to that some of the lateral grip. of being an absolute corker, courtesy of this next level. Brivio did that.” “We went in the middle. There were change of format. More than that, it looks set DMACK’s goal remains a simple a lot of questions here when Ott took to fast-track a Brit or two to the next level of one: to supply a world championship the hard tyre on Saturday morning when the world championship. manufacturer. Last week was a big step Michelin ran softs. But calling ours a hard in that direction – but how did the tyre is a bit of a misnomer: our hard is just a that failed so catastrophically in Sardinia little bit harder than the Michelin soft. work so well in similar heat in Poland? And our soft is a lot softer – which is Cormack explained: “We knew we how we were so confident on Sunday couldn’t bring a tyre to the market morning. And we know this tyre will be which would win on every [gravel] phenomenal if we have typical Rally GB round of championship, we’re not quite conditions in Wales. there yet. We had a new tyre coming for “But, like I say, so much of this is Portugal and with Fiore’s experience, down to experience of knowing what our experience and the chance to work compound and construction will with the Cooper engineers, we thought work in what conditions and Fiore this was possible.” knows all about that.” The surfaces, the temperatures and the By Saturday night, Tanak had widened required working range for the tyres were the gap past the 20-second mark. Dreams all studied and DMACK’s chemists went were starting to be dreamed. The rain to work. “The chemical-compounding was coming, that much we knew, but side of the operation is a real black art,” DMACK had it covered. If it did rain, the said Cormack. “Basically, you look for soft would offer more grip than the the compromise between compound French equivalent. And if temperatures and construction. We could have gone stayed above 30, with the sun high in the for a heavy construction, which would sky… well, bolt on the hards and repeat have worked in Sardinia; we wouldn’t Saturday morning’s clean sweep. have any punctures or wear issues By daybreak, the dark, threatening because of the strength of the tyre, clouds were delivering serious amounts

JULY 7 2016 37 DO WE NEED TO GO FASTER?

AS I STOOD LISTENING IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD somewhere near the Russian border, the noise got louder, louder, loudest. The growl turned into a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat as Ott Tanak’s Ford Fiesta RS WRC came into view. On the limiter. At head height. The Estonian was in full flight, wringing the neck of the M-Sport machine. When I spoke to him later in the day, he grinned. “I can do anything with this car,” he said. “I can fly. When you have everything working for you, honestly, everything is possible.” There’s no doubt Tanak was in the zone in Poland, a man loving the opportunity to drive a cutting-edge rally car as fast as the laws of physics would allow. Seeing a rally car flying at 100mph-plus is always an awe-inspiring, if slightly disturbing, view. And I must admit, I did leave Poland feeling slightly more concerned than usual. Talking to Tanak had demonstrated that these boys really are a different breed, more than happy to take themselves and their cars to a place way, way beyond the comfort zone of mere mortals. But what about next year? These same roads of rain. No worries. Tanak went out, did points to stay behind in the will be rocking to the beat of the next generation two stages and came back to service. championship, forcing the Spaniard to of World Rally Cars. They’ll be going faster and Granted, he’d lost some time to second- run second on the road. flying further. Frankly, I find that a bit of a worry. placed Andreas Mikkelsen’s Polo, but the Mikkelsen made full use of that extra Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the raison Fiesta was running too hard. Softened set of Michelins sweeping a line for his d’etre for technical upheaval the need for off with four fresh softs, it was sent Volkswagen – particularly on Saturday, spectacle? I’ve always found that slightly curious. back out to bring it home. when he pushed the Polo as hard as he And never more so than after Poland. Clearly, the Dropping three seconds at the first would dare and it would go. rule-changers weren’t standing in the same field split in the penultimate stage wasn’t Every time he opened the door at the as me as I stood and tried to comprehend the good. ‘Not good’ became ‘disaster’ in end of a stage, Mikkelsen was electric violent speed of ballistic rally cars dropping jaws a matter of minutes. A front tyre had – the energy coming out of the car was by the thousand every other minute. been knocked off the rim by one of the immense and a marked contrast to the I’m with the FIA when it comes to the need ridiculously deep ruts dug into the ice-cool Tanak five cars further back. for a bit more noise and improved aesthetics. season’s softest stages. The lead was “I cannot go faster,” reckoned So whack a bigger wing on and drill a hole in gone, replaced by numbness. Mikkelsen. “There’s not another tenth the pipes. But think long and hard before final DMACK and M-Sport folk sat and of a second in those stages. I’m giving sign-off on all that extra power. stared, barely able to take in what had it absolutely everything.” DAVID EVANS just happened. The Fiesta’s first win in He’d struggled to get comfortable with three and a half years had been stolen. a wildly understeering VW on Friday Understandbly, Tanak was in no mood afternoon. But his ability to cope with to talk at the end of the stage. It didn’t that and then get immediately back into really matter. An explanation wasn’t the grove when, with engineer Richard going to change anything. Browne, he found the sweet spot on With one stage to go, he was second. Saturday was utterly admirable. Ordinarily this would have been cause for As for Sunday, anybody who came mass celebration for the Estonian fans through that rain and those ruts could camped outside. Now though, with the claim to be a winner. The conditions rain diluting the tears, runner-up meant were as tough as they come in the world nothing. But still, resolutely, they stood championship; Wales at its worst and waited for Tanak and co-driver couldn’t impart such savagery on Raigo Molder, their sodden, limp flags a world-class field. capturing the mood as well as anything. Watching Tanak cross the line of the Next door, the mood had lifted final stage was confirmation that the considerably. For the second time, dream had died. There was barely a Mikkelsen scored victory at the last gasp. murmur from within M-Sport. This If that sounds harsh on the Polo driver, was the moment the roof was it’s absolutely not meant to be. He drove supposed to be six inches higher a magnificent rally, more than worthy of than it had been all week. a win. Like Tanak, Mikkelsen had come Instead, the cheer went to Volkswagen within an ace of winning Poland 12 and the series’ sixth different winner in month ago. But this time he delivered. as many rallies. Such things paled into And that win had its foundations in insignificance in the face of the emotion Sardinia, when he took the brave decision that would follow. Tanak got out of his

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38 JULY 7 2016 POLAND/WRC

RESULTS ROUND 7/14, RALLY POLAND, JUNE 30-JULY 3 Paddon took third for Hyundai POS DRIVER CO-DRIVER TEAM / CAR TIME

1 Andreas Mikkelsen (N) Anders Jager Synnevaag (N) II · R WRC 2h37m34.4s

2 Ott Tanak (EST) Raigo Molder (EST) DMACK World Rally Team · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +26.2s

3 (NZ) (NZ) · Hyundai i20 WRC +28.5s

4 (B) (B) Hyundai Motorsport · Hyundai i20 WRC +29.3s

5 Jari-Matti Latvala (FIN) (FIN) Volkswagen Motorsport · Volkswagen Polo R WRC +33.8s

6 Sebastien Ogier (F) (F) Volkswagen Motorsport · Volkswagen Polo R WRC +40.3s

7 (IRL) (GB) Abu Dhabi Total WRT · Citroen DS 3 WRC +2m01.4s

8 Mads Ostberg (N) Ola Floene (N) M-Sport WRT · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +3m04.6s

9 (F) Benjamin Veillas (F) M-Sport WRT · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +5m23.1s

10 (FIN) (FIN) Team · Skoda Fabia R5 +5m53.3s OTHERS

11 Lorenzo Bertelli (I) Simone Scattolin (I) FWRT · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +5m57.0s

12 Stephane Lefebvre (F) Gabin Moreau (F) Abu Dhabi Total WRT · Citroen DS 3 WRC +6m38.0s

15 (N) -Petrasko (A) Privateer · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +9m00.3s

17 Yazeed Al-Rajhi (SA) Michael Orr (GB) Yazeed Racing · Ford Fiesta RS WRC +13m01.5s

27 Valeriy Gorban (UA) Volodymyr Korsya (UA) Eurolamp WRT · John Cooper Works WRC +31m23.0s

R Dani Sordo (E) Marc Marti (E) Hyundai Motorsport N · Hyundai i20 WRC SS20-suspension

DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP 1 Ogier 143; 2 Mikkelsen 92; weren’t having that. This wasn’t a time 3 Paddon 72; 4 Latvala 68; for the week’s hero to be alone. 5 Sordo 68; 6 Ostberg 62; They gathered around him to offer 7 Neuville 61; 8 Tanak 52; consolation, then Sebastien Ogier 9 Meeke 26; 10 Camilli 24. stepped forwards to demonstrate the MANUFACTURERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP true depth of feeling for one of their 1 Volkswagen Motorsport 205; own. The world champion hoisted Tanak 2 Hyundai Motorsport 151; onto his own shoulders and carried 3 M-Sport WRT 108; 4 Hyundai him back towards the car. Hyundais finished Motorsport N 78; 5 Volkswagen It was one of those moments when third and fourth Motorsport II 74; 6 DMACK World sport delivers on a human level. Bravo Rally Team 40. Ogier. The champ’s act was even more impressive given the shocking weekend STAGE TIMES he’d endured himself. Two days flat-out STAGE FASTEST LEADER SECOND on the knife edge of a half-decent stage (1.55 miles) 1m46.2s +0.2s time and bunging his motor into boonies SS1 Super Special Stage Mikolajki Arena 1 Neuville Neuville Mikkelsen had taken its toll on him. SS2 Chmielewo 1 (4.05 miles) Paddon 3m15.9s Tanak Paddon +0.2s He looked tired and was tired of SS3 Wieliczki 1 (10.75 miles) Mikkelsen 8m58.6s Mikkelsen Tanak +3.6s talking the same talk for another week. Sixth place was scant reward. SS4 Swietajno 1 (13.14 miles) Tanak 10m04.8s Mikkelsen Tanak +2.3s Ahead of him Hayden Paddon and SS5 Stare Juchy 1 (8.39 miles) Paddon 6m45.3s Mikkelsen Paddon +2.6s Thierry Neuville combined to land (4.05 miles) 3m10.7s +1.9s Hyundai a nice points haul with third SS6 Chmielewo 2 Tanak Mikkelsen Paddon and fourth, while Volkswagen was, quite SS7 Wieliczki 2 (10.75 miles) Tanak 8m50.2s Mikkelsen Tanak +0.3s frankly, let down by Jari-Matti Latvala, SS8 Swietajno 2 (13.14 miles) Tanak 9m54.0s Tanak Mikkelsen +3.2s who simply couldn’t dial himself into the speed needed – a worrying state of SS9 Stare Juchy 2 (8.39 miles) Paddon 6m39.1s Tanak Mikkelsen +2.0s affairs for a Finn. He finished fifth. SS10 Super Special Stage Mikolajki Arena 2 (1.55 miles) Ogier 1m46.0s Tanak Mikkelsen +4.2s Latvala’s woes were put on ice. The (9.17 miles) 7m26.3s +10.9s WRC had more to worry about as Tanak SS11 Goldap 1 Tanak Tanak Mikkelsen returned to Mikolajki for the final time. SS12 Stanczyki 1 (15.70 miles) Tanak 13m40.7s Tanak Mikkelsen +13.0s Twenty-four hours earlier, the biggest SS13 Babki 1 (13.06 miles) Tanak 10m16.5s Tanak Mikkelsen +18.0s concern had been rebooking flights. Brivio’s outbound plane was tight for SS14 Stanczyki 2 (15.70 miles) Mikkelsen 13m27.2s Tanak Mikkelsen +16.5s any sort of celebration. SS15 Babki 2 (13.06 miles) Lefebvre 10m04.3s Tanak Mikkelsen +15.1s “Don’t worry,” said Cormack early (9.17 miles) 7m29.5s +19.5s afternoon on Saturday. “You’re not SS16 Goldap 2 Latvala Tanak Mikkelsen going anywhere…” SS17 Super Special Stage Mikolajki Arena 3 (1.55 miles) Tanak 1m45.4s Tanak Mikkelsen +21.3s A day later, the Italian architect of SS18 Baranowo 1 (13.20 miles) Mikkelsen 10m43.5s Tanak Mikkelsen +18.9s DMACK’s finest hour threw his arms around Tanak. Then threw his bags in SS19 Sady 1 (5.31 miles) Ogier 4m31.2s Tanak Mikkelsen +18.6s the boot and headed south. SS20 Baranowo 2 (13.20 miles) Latvala 11m18.5s Mikkelsen Tanak +16.5s Cormack stood firm. “F*** it,” he said. (5.31 miles) 4m47.0s +26.2s “We’ll be back.” SS21 Sady 2 [Powerstage] Ogier Mikkelsen Tanak

JULY 7 2016 39 MOTOGP/SUZUKI

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It’s 16 years since Suzuki claimed the last of six top-level motorcycle riders’ titles. After ending a spell on the sidelines in 2015, its third stint at the top level is starting to ramp up

By Mitchell Adam, International Editor @DrMitchellAdam

he indecision of a 21-year-old is about I wake up and I say, ‘OK, here’. Then on the other day I think the biggest compliment Suzuki could again, I wake up and say, ‘But maybe this one is better for me’.” have been paid about its rebooted The cold, hard reality is that since the turn of the MotoGP campaign, now in its second millennium Suzuki has won six premier-class races. Rossi season. Maverick Vinales graduated to has won 88 in that time, 55 of those with Yamaha. Ultimately, MotoGP with Suzuki when it returned and unsurprisingly, Vinales signed with Yamaha, but that in 2015, and had done enough to be he had to consider the situation so carefully and for so Yamaha’s number-one target to replace long speaks volumes about the progress Suzuki has made Jorge Lorenzo when the three-time in the past 18 months. world champion’s move to Ducati for 2017 came together. It returned to a championship about as strong as it had T Vinales was the hottest property in the paddock, and faced ever been at the start of 2015, with Ducati making inroads what seemed like a pretty obvious choice. On one hand, he into the Yamaha-and-Honda duopoly at the front and could stay with Suzuki, a manufacturer that has not won a strong satellite teams keeping everyone honest. race since 2007, and only won twice since Kenny Roberts Jr Initially, Suzuki slotted into the upper midfield, but did star took its last riders’ title in 2000. He could stay on a bike on Saturdays, capitalising on an allowance to run a compound- that made good progress in the previous year, with a view step softer than the frontrunners, also afforded to Ducati last to taking Suzuki back to the top, to write his own history, but year. Aleix Espargaro qualified on the front row of the grid three with the very real prospect that it might never come together. times in the first eight races, including leading Vinales in a On the other, he could join Yamaha, the manufacturer that one-two in qualifying at Barcelona. The pair finished the year has won seven of the past 12 riders’ titles with Lorenzo and 11th and 12th in the points, each rider’s best result being sixth. , and jump on the bike that’s the class of “In terms of final position in the standings I have to be the field. A bike he’d likely be able to win races on straight honest, we expected more,” admits team manager Davide Brivio. away, and challenge for championships. “Overall I can say that we had a good first season, a good start. For an ambitious – but admittedly loyal – young rider, the It was quite impressive, what we did in only the first year. choice looked obvious. But Vinales had to think hard. Suzuki had I think our races had a good impact in the public. given him his chance – was the dream of winning titles together “I feel that we did a good job, but to be honest [the results real? Even Rossi admitted he could see the “romance” in Vinales were] a little bit under my expectations.” staying put. Several GPs came and went without a decision. Rossi’s longtime boss at Yamaha, before the Italian rider’s “It’s very difficult,” Vinales told Autosport at the Le Mans ill-fated Ducati move, Brivio joined Suzuki in April 2013 to round in May, before he ultimately made his call. “One day lead its return, taking on what he viewed as “a big challenge”.

Ducati, Yamaha and Honda are tough rivals for Suzuki

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Legend Barry Sheene took two 500cc world titles with Suzuki LAT

It’s nine years since Suzuki’s last win, scored by Chris Vermeulen WOOD/LAT

42 JULY 7 2016 He arrived less than 18 months after Suzuki had exited MotoGP on its investment was limited and its commitment in amid the global financial crisis, with a struggling and downsized jeopardy due to the global financial crisis. programme, initially targeting a 2014 comeback. At the end of the season, Suzuki announced it had “decided Suzuki had been developing an all-new bike at its Hamamatsu to suspend temporarily its participation to cope with tough base in Japan, but with a Mitsubishi ECU. Knowing that this circumstances mainly caused by the prolonged recession in year’s new Magneti Marelli-derived control unit was coming, developed countries, a historical appreciation of Japanese Suzuki opted to start from scratch with electronics, switching yen and repeated natural disasters”. to Magneti Marelli and deciding to push its MotoGP race return It vowed to return and indeed has, and now looks to be on back to 2015, primarily to develop and learn the new system. the road to reaching some of those heights again, even if it The test mule was shaken down in April 2013, a month before knows there are no guarantees. testing started in earnest at Motegi with Randy de Puniet. “Suzuki decided to come back because participating in “Switching from Mitsubishi to Magneti Marelli and also MotoGP has a lot of benefit to the promotion of the brand,” making the software – because we didn’t really have the Brivio says of managing expectations from the board in software in-house – was complex because it was the first Japan, which he visits four or five times each year. time Suzuki was creating its own software,” Brivio reflects. “Then of course the target is to reach a good level, to “They told me that they started from a clean sheet [with get a good result, but we don’t have a position and timing the bike] and in fact in 2011 when Suzuki stopped, the engine where we want to ‘be there by then’. was a V4. This is an inline four, so it was a completely “Of course the target is to try to win. Try to get to the redesigned bike, very small, very compact. top, which of course is not easy because MotoGP is a highly “I remember the first time we went testing with Randy, we competitive environment and this is the difficulty of the took an 800cc machine, the 2011 bike, and a new machine. challenge. But of course this is the target. This is what we The 800cc machine looked much bigger than the 1000cc. are trying to do and of course the sooner the better.” “It was a very nice project; you could see the bike was By the time Suzuki returned properly at the start of 2015, looking beautiful from the beginning.” it had developed a new beyond its test mule, made Beautiful bikes are not necessarily always fast, or even engine and electronics gains and, mercifully, solved its reliability reliable, as Suzuki found when it got a wildcard entry and issues. Brivio describes last year as “quite intense”, looking to contested Valencia’s 2014 season finale with de Puniet. “create chemistry” within the new team, complete with one The French rider qualified 20th and retired from the race rookie rider and an all-new bike. while running 19th, having suffered a very public engine It finished 2015 with a solid package and a chassis that failure during Friday practice, further problems on Saturday was good through high-speed corners, but knew it was and finally a gearshift issue in the race. down on straightline speed compared to the frontrunners, In the post-event test, and lacked a seamless Espargaro and Vinales gearbox. Suzuki made then rode the GSX-RR good progress with the for the first time, also Vinales: “Expectations engine over the winter Vinales’s maiden voyage and Brivio reckons it is on a MotoGP bike. Both were too high. I don’t know now “competitive with riders remember that other manufacturers, the electronics were except maybe Ducati, basically switched off, why the grip was so low” which is faster than such were the problems anybody else”, and the Suzuki was experiencing. Vinales noted that “without the seamless gearbox was introduced earlier this season. traction control and anti-wheelie, it was a beast”. Its 2015 trend of being better on a Saturday than a Sunday The problems were more akin to the way Suzuki had exited has continued, but generally further up the order. The opener MotoGP, rather than its glorious history in the premier class. in Qatar sums up Vinales’s campaign so far, in a way: from the The early stages of the world championship had been dominated front row of the grid he made a poor start and fell to seventh, by British and Italian bikes, namely Norton, Gilera and MV recovering to finish sixth, 15 seconds behind Lorenzo’s Yamaha. Agusta, but by 1982 Japanese brands were in charge of 500cc “The expectation was too high,” he admitted post-race. competition, with Suzuki leading the way with seven “I was expecting to be at the front, at least finishing the race constructors’ titles to Yamaha’s two and Honda’s one. with them. But I was feeling not so good, like I was before, Across the late 1970s and early ’80s, it also took four riders’ on the bike. I don’t know why the grip was so low – not on titles, two with British icon Barry Sheene, then one each for acceleration, it was on the brakes. I was braking and all the Italians Marco Lucchinelli and Franco Uncini in 1981 and ’82. time the rear was sliding and it was impossible to keep the Kevin Schwantz in 1993 and ultimately Roberts in 2000 have speed. Anyway, I think we did a good job – it’s my best also won titles with Suzuki. weekend here in MotoGP.” But Yamaha and Honda had pushed ahead during the That theme has remained so far this year, Vinales frustrated 1980s, ’90s and early 2000s. Suzuki was being outmuscled, that while he can essentially do what he wants while the tyre outdeveloped, outraced by bigger manufacturers. is new, as it gets older or as the grip drops the rear end of Roberts’s title defence in 2001 was a disaster, scoring one the GSX-RR starts to leave him wanting. But fifth in the podium on his way to 11th in the final year of the 500cc championship and his first podium at Le Mans represent two-stroke bikes, team-mate Sete Gibernau taking Suzuki’s significant progress, with Espargaro ninth leaving Assen only victory. There was worse to come as Suzuki struggled last month, hurt by a couple of recent DNFs. with the move to four-stroke 990cc engines, with four At Assen, Vinales started to race a new Suzuki chassis – podiums across the next five seasons. Espargaro preferring the old one – which had shown promise It fared better with the 800cc formula, Chris Vermeulen in tests in the bid to maintain rear grip, but that wet race taking what remains Suzuki’s most recent MotoGP victory showed it’s behind on electronics in those conditions. in the wet at Le Mans in 2007. Suzuki recorded eight Suzuki targeted podiums in its second year back and now podiums in all that year, Vermeulen finishing sixth in has one, but it naturally wants to keep building on that and the points and John Hopkins fourth. getting back towards those glory days of decades past. Then things dropped away again, and more. It failed to visit “This is a never-ending story, of course,” Brivio says. “The the podium in 2009 or ’10, then scaled back to a single bike development never ends, the factory continues working. But for Alvaro Bautista in ’11. It was the last year before the it’s where you can see the difference between the Valencia switch to the current 1000cc bikes, and Suzuki’s return race in 2015 and the Qatar race in ’16 – that was a big jump.

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Brivio: “It looks like we can stay much more frequently in the top six”

“It looks like we’re closing up to the top. Maybe this is a bit Brivio can see more than my expectations. But now it’s very important to that progress carry on at this level, to continue improving because last year is being made maybe we were struggling to be in the top six or seven. “This year it looks like we can stay much more frequently in the top six. But then on some occasions maybe we have a little bit of luck to be on the podium. “We scored the podium at Le Mans, so it looks like we are just there. And this is what we have to do, to be as close as possible to the top and then take the opportunity to get onto the podium when there is a chance.” The grind that Aprilia is enduring shows how tough it is to enter MotoGP and get up to speed, and validates the progress Suzuki has made. The Italian make is more than one year behind Suzuki, having run what was essentially a production-derived bike last year, before its thoroughbred

WOOD/LAT RS-GP ran for the first time a month ahead of the 2016

44 JULY 7 2016 Vinales (#25) and Suzuki has lost Vinales to Espargaro both Yamaha for next year move on for 2017 WOOD/LAT Life after Vinales THERE IS NO HIDING THE when they were there. If Suzuki can fact that Suzuki will miss running second and third, provide a comfortable Maverick Vinales in 2017. crashed at Le Mans, then environment for Iannone When it signed him for its fired into Lorenzo at to help calm his ways, it MotoGP return, it signed Barcelona and started could be a shrewd gamble. a young rider on the rise. last at Assen. Aleix Espargaro is He had won the Moto3 title It is not a good record, perhaps unlucky to be in just his third season at paired with the fact that leaving Suzuki. More world championship level, he also failed to finish three experienced than Vinales, then finished third in his of 2015’s last four GPs. His he has played a key role only year in Moto2, a nickname, ‘The Maniac’, in developing the GSX-RR transition that has taken said by Ducati to be “for his and continuity could many riders several aggressive and exciting have been an asset campaigns to get their riding style”, has taken on moving forward. heads around. a new meaning. But Espargaro was Now 21, Vinales has By the Vinales scale, visibly put out by Suzuki’s more than grasped the Iannone is old at 26, decision to sign Iannone opportunity, to the point before it had made a move that Yamaha came “Rins will on renewing his deal. knocking and lured him In the end, it will be an away. With that decision, start 2017 at all-new line-up in blue next Suzuki pounced on Andrea short odds year, with another rookie Iannone, given that one of following in Vinales’s the two Ducati riders was for rookie footsteps: Moto2 title going to be squeezed out of the year contender Alex Rins. to accommodate Jorge A year younger than Lorenzo next year. honours” Vinales, Rins finished fift h, On paper, Ducati elected second and third in his season opener. Espargaro, who is heading to Aprilia next to keep Andrea Dovizioso, turning 27 in August. By three Moto3 campaigns. year, says he can see similarities between the two projects. but Iannone says it was not the Valentino Rossi scale, Runner-up in Moto2 as a Then MotoGP welcomes another new manufacturer next necessarily that clear cut. Iannone is young. He’s in rookie last year, he currently year, KTM. The Austrian brand is away developing its prototype What is clear is that Suzuki his fourth season in the shares the lead in the and will step into the kitchen in Qatar next March. has signed the enigma of premier class, which is points and is impressing Suzuki’s progress will give both parties hope. Only one title MotoGP. Iannone is very probably too late to be so with his speed and poise. – Casey Stoner’s on a Ducati in 2007 – has been won by a rider fast and on that basis he clumsy on a MotoGP bike. Like Iannone, he gets on on something other than a Honda or Yamaha since Roberts’s should be staying at Ducati, But there is no denying what’s becoming a very success in 2000. And it’s now nearly six years since anything rather than Dovizioso. Iannone’s pace, and many good motorcycle, and will other than a Honda or Yamaha won a MotoGP race. But that speed has gone would argue it’s easier to start 2017 at short odds for There is still a way to go before Suzuki is in a position to waste on too many tame a quick-but-wild rider rookie of the year honours. to routinely fi ght at the very front of the fi eld. But if the occasions in the past year, than to make a timid one Brivio calls it a “perfect new chassis can give Vinales what he craves over a race largely due to mistakes. fast. Davide Brivio says he combination for our distance, then perhaps his fl ashes of Friday and Saturday Iannone crashed out of was Suzuki’s first choice to challenge”, and they will pace can be seen on Sundays. second in Qatar, having replace Vinales, and you be hoping Suzuki has Then, the next time Yamaha or Honda come knocking for led, then skittled Dovizioso have to believe him on that another winter like its a Suzuki rider, it will be even harder to prise them away. at the final chicane in – the raw ingredients are 2015/16 off -season.

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Evans leads Gelael in closing stages Campos 1-2 is Evans-

GP2 SERIES was option-prime if it was dry,” said the ecstatic RED BULL RING (A) Gelael, only once a points scorer in GP2 before JULY 2-3 this weekend. “It just worked even more in our ROUND 4/11 favour that no one else thought the same.” While Evans and Gelael – along with Jimmy WHEN ’S DRIVERS Eriksson and Rene Binder – made early stops qualified 10th and 19th for the GP2 Series at the onto the primes, Gasly and Giovinazzi were Red Bull Ring, it just looked like the continuation leading the way at the front, having both jumped of a difficult season for the team. Sure, Mitch Sirotkin on the opening lap. But a sudden Evans had been a little delayed in traffic, but downpour at Turn 2, which extended to Turn 3, so had several others between fourth and ninth. left Gasly in the unenviable position of having to , his much-less-experienced, lanky gauge the grip, and his incredible ability not to Indonesian team-mate, had made a mistake on win a race – reminiscent of Cristiano Ronaldo’s BLANCPAIN SPRINT BLANCPAIN his first run and possibly damaged the underside early Euro 2016 non-goal-scoring touch – O of the car, although he’d looked to be making dropped him into the Turn 3 gravel, perched good progress in free practice, where he was 13th. on the edge of the circuit. No, what this looked like was a battle between The safety car closed the field up, and now ART Grand Prix’s poleman Sergey Sirotkin plus Evans and Gelael, on their fresher rubber, in-form Prema Racing duo climbed the order after the restart. Gelael even – denied pole by just 0.006 seconds – and Pierre got ahead of Evans as they moved into the

GP3 Gasly, who lined up immediately behind the points, only to have to half-spin at the still-

Russian, with a solid time buffer to those behind. slippery Turn 2 as he caught Sirotkin quicker

O And then the Styrian weather changed… than he expected. Evans was now seventh on the

Evans led Gelael home in a one-two for the road, with the top six yet to stop, and that Campos team that was set up by a gut feeling one-two was likely. But it was jeopardised when among the Valencia squad that the best tactic Marvin Kirchhofer spun and stalled at Turn 2, would be to start the race on super-soft option bringing out the safety car. Now those top tyres before switching onto the soft primes. runners could bolt on their super-softs, which

GP2 “From before qualifying we were convinced it would have fewer than 10 laps to last… RACE CENTRE

46 JULY 7 2016 Consistent scoring has AT A put Marciello top of GLANCE the points table

RACE 1 1 Evans Campos 2 Gelael Campos 3 Marciello

RACE 2 1 King 2 Rowland MP 3 Lynn DAMS

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L-r: Rowland, King and Lynn formed all-British sprint-race podium ALL PICS: S BLOXHAM/LAT ALL PICS: sent result

Giovinazzi lost the advantage when he felt a perfectly; the options had already gone off. weather I don’t know, but our car was fast.” hesitation from his battery as he left the Prema “Everyone dropped quite a lot,” said Marciello. With penalties for lower-top-10 finishers pit stall, and now – who had “I think the super-soft is very aggressive for Sirotkin and Gustav Malja, Jordan King moved held the lead for two laps during a battle between here – the degradation was quite high.” up to eighth and reversed-grid pole. King, along the two Italians – was up to fifth behind those Behind fourth-placed Ghiotto – the Trident with Racing Engineering team-mate Norman four early stoppers, who he’d surely make short driver, on form all weekend, had closed onto Nato and DAMS ace , had been among work of on his grippy rubber. the tails of Giovinazzi and Marciello during those to switch to wets when the rain came, only Marciello’s Russian Time team-mate, Artem the slippery middle portion of the race – the to have to make a second stop for slicks. Markelov, who’d been running fourth behind super-soft difficulty was highlighted again But there was no argument over tyre choice , lost places at his by having to in the sprint race, which began in fully wet stop simply because he had concede fifth with two laps to conditions under the safety car. Once the field to wait for Marciello to Marciello: go to the long-running Eriksson, was unleashed, King drove beautifully, looking be serviced, and as he exited the who has been far from a factor after his tyres, managing the gap and then pitlane the pre-race points leader “I think the on pace this season. showing fastest-lap-setting pace after a clanged into the barrier, blocking But the Campos cars’ speed was late safety car for his maiden GP2 win. the route back onto the circuit super-soft, still highly impressive, and it was Once Nato had faded from his early second and causing a red flag. finally Evans who set fastest lap place, Rowland was King’s closest challenger, but After a long wait, the cars for here, is on just a handful of laps’ fewer with his tyres fading badly the MP Motorsport resumed behind the safety car of fuel than those quick guys had man was being reeled in by Lynn – who – except Giovinazzi, whose aggressive” carried when their super-softs methodically and skilfully picked his way battery had finally cried enough were new. It was a real feel-good through a very close battle from 11th – by the due to alternator failure, and Binder. All result: without the Jagonya Ayam scheme end. Lynn’s progress included a fantastic scrap Marciello had to do was jump Eriksson – which founded by Gelael’s father Ricardo (a massive with Marciello, with half a lap of side-by-side he did swiftly – and now the chase was on. Sure motorsport enthusiast), neither Evans nor action from which Nico Rosberg could learn a enough, he got to within a second of Gelael, but Giovinazzi would be in GP2 this year, and Tom few lessons. Marciello, now the points leader, immediately Gelael set Blomqvist would not have got to the DTM. “We only just pipped Giovinazzi, who briefly dropped a purple sector two and a new race fastest lap, had massive pace,” said Evans. “It’s been a really it into the gravel early on but redeemed himself which was improved upon by Evans two laps tough start to the season but we haven’t stopped with a spirited charge from 13th to fifth. later. Those old prime tyres were working working. Whether we were lucky with the MARCUS SIMMONS

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48 JULY 7 2016 Winners Leclerc IN BRIEF (left) and Boschung fight it out

S BLOXHAM/LAT SUPERCUP Sven Muller won a wet-dry-damp race from start to finish, while Mathieu Jaminet took the points lead. Muller got the jump from the second row as poleman Matteo Cairoli floundered at the start, the Italian dropping to fourth before being excluded when his car was deemed to be underweight. Jaminet converted his front-row start into second place, with Jeffrey Schmidt taking third. Brit Ben Barker was taken out in a collision while battling for sixth, with Ryan Cullen scoring his best Supercup result by taking the spot.

SUPER TC2000 Fiat works driver Bernardo Llaver emerged victorious at Obera after contact between team-mate Jose Manuel Urcera and Agustin Canapinoʼs two laps from the finish. Canapino clambered through the pack from an early fifth and, after wresting second from Llaver, he went in pursuit of leader Urcera. Canapino briefly made it in front, but contact with Urcera sent both into the track’s grassy surroundings, allowing Llaver into a lead he would maintain until the chequered flag. Leclerc from hero to zero Canapino was third after he was ordered to return second to Urcera by the stewards. GP3 SERIES Leclerc took some time to find his rhythm RED BULL RING (A) again to repel the challenge from Albon. TCR INTERNATIONAL SERIES JULY 2-3 “It was one of the hardest races I’ve driven Reigning champion Stefano Comini took ROUND 2/9 in my life,” he said. “I’ve never been in a his second win of the season at Sochi in his position like this – you have no reference; Leopard Racing Volkswagen Golf. The Swiss SHOWED HIS you don’t know how to fix your limits, led all the way, while got his Craft good side and his hitherto invisible bad and I did two or three really stupid errors.” Bamboo SEAT ahead of Gianni Morbidelliʼs side at the Red Bull Ring. Considering his Boschung inherited fourth from West Coast Racing Honda for second on lap good side was consummately classy and Trident’s after Oscar two. Mikhail Grachev (WCR Honda) took a dominant, that should be the overriding Tunjo was called into the pits by officials home win in the reversed-grid race from memory of the weekend. But it was a due to loose wing mirrors. Jean-Karl Vernayʼs Leopard VW and the B3 misdemeanour in race two, in which he Eighth on the reversed grid, Leclerc SEAT of Attila Tassi. James Nash finished took out two cars with a mistake, that and the rest of the field trundled around fourth in both races but was penalised in has the lasting effect of a five-place grid behind the safety car on a soaking-wet the first for contact with Vernay. penalty for Silverstone this weekend. track for 19 of the 30 available minutes Ferrari’s Monegasque prodigy looked before they were set free. On the first ASIAN GT absolutely on it even from the start of racing lap, his oil temperature rose and and Audi shared the honours at free practice on old rubber, and when he knocked the engine into safety mode – Okayama. built up a lead in defeated his opposition in qualifying by 10% power – before it cleared. Now he the Absolute Racing Continental (below) over half a second it seemed as though was back in 16th and, after a further safety in race one that Andrew Kim converted to the first race was already won. car, he collided with Tatiana Calderon victory. Second went to the Lamborghini But ART Grand Prix team-mate as they battled up to Turn 2, before his of Edoardo Liberati and Andrea Amici, Alexander Albon got a better launch to damaged car speared into . while Jono Lester rose up the order to take lead up to Turn 1. With yet another ART The resulting safety car meant there third in the Porsche started by . driver – – boxed in from were just three laps of green-flag action, and had third on the grid, it was and Boschung took his maiden GP3 win pressured Fong in their Ferraris, only for who swept around Leclerc and into second for the Koiranen GP team after team- their co-drivers to be hit with a pit-speeding place. Leclerc fought back immediately, mate had inadvertently AT A penalty and be taken off respectively. Phoenix passing Boschung into Turn 2 and punted polesitter into a Racingʼs R8 was taken to victory in race two then, even with his entry to the corner spin when Hughes lost momentum with GLANCE by and Shaun Thong, with compromised by his overtaking move, wheelspin out of Turn 1 moments after Davide Rizzo and Anthony Liu second in he was able to get enough of a run on the field was unleashed. Barcelona RACE 1 their Ferrari, and Fong/Kim third. Albon to dive back in front into Turn 3. qualifying hero Hughes salvaged sixth 1 Leclerc ART An early virtual safety car pinned his on a tough weekend for the DAMS 2 Albon ART advantage, but before long he was back in team, with Parry right behind. 3 de Vries ART the groove, sometimes gaining as much Albon, meanwhile, reaped the reward as four tenths on everyone else through for being one of the few to stay on the RACE 2 the long middle sector that comprises track throughout by taking another 1 Boschung Koiranen the meat of the lap. This was a cruise… second, this time from Fuoco and 2 Albon ART Then sudden rain at Turn 2 sent de Vries, who had sailed through the 3 Fuoco Trident Leclerc, Albon and de Vries all off the gravel at Turn 3 along with Parry. circuit, without loss of position, and MARCUS SIMMONS P53 FULL RESULTS

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Bell and Parente kept up Garage 59’s run of form at Nurburgring It’s second time lucky for Bell and

BLANCPAIN SPRINT CUP The tenths lost lapping one of the other and I think that helped us,” continued NURBURGRING (D) WRT and a quick off meant he Bell. The team had also tweaked the tyre JULY 2-3 was left with only two and a bit laps pressures from Saturday to the benefit ROUND 3/5 to try to make the pass. of front-end bite. The full-points race on Sunday was a Bell and Parente never looked like losing ROB BELL AND ALVARO PARENTE much more straightforward affair for the victory on Sunday, at least once the Garage missed out on a first Sprint Cup victory in McLaren duo. Bell was able to put the 59 squad performed in the pits, though the the Blancpain GT Series at the Nurburgring WRT challenge four seconds behind him Briton’s flying getaway did briefly come last Saturday by a scant three tenths. All through the opening stint, though this under investigation. The McLaren driver that the McLaren duo were missing was time the closest Audi driver was Will reckoned that Ide “was asleep at the start” an all-important quick turnaround in the Stevens, who’d moved past Ide on lap four. and that he just “got a cracker”. pits. So, when their Garage 59 squad got WRT again had the edge in the pits, the The rear-engined cars were in the it right in the pits on Sunday, they duly McLaren’s lead effectively halved during ascendant on a circuit that wasn’t entirely recorded that maiden win. the cycle of stops. The Audi had stopped popular with either the teams or the Parente had converted pole positiion later than the McLaren, and on the fresher drivers. Stevens and Rast had finished third into the lead of the qualifying race aboard Pirelli rubber Rene Rast was able to inch in the qualifying event, while the HTP his 650S GT3 and held an advantage over towards the leader. But once the bite of AT A Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 shared by the WRT Audi R8 LMS of Christopher his tyres was gone the gap stabilised, Bernd Schneider and Mies that never grew to a full second and a McLaren notched up a first sprint GLANCE was the only front-engined machine to right through the opening stint. But, as victory since Navarra in 2013, when the make it onto the podium last weekend. ever, the Belgian team won the battle in championship was known as the FIA GT RACE 1 Schneider had qualified only 24th, the pits in the middle of the one-hour Series. “Our guys have practised pitstops 1 Mies/Ide Audi but set-up changes for the first race helped race. The Portuguese driver’s narrow lead quite a bit since yesterday and that really 2 Parente/Bell McLaren the Merc to come through to eighth. over Mies turned into a deficit of 10 or paid off,” said Bell. 3 Rast/Stevens Audi Szymkowiak charged to fourth inside so seconds once Bell and had The lead Garage 59 McLaren was also 10 laps on Sunday, before his veteran taken over their respective mounts. an even more competitive proposition RACE 2 team-mate emerged in third after the The Briton, already a two-time winner on Sunday around the short 2.25-mile 1 Bell/Parente McLaren stops when Mies got hemmed in behind this season in the BGTS Endurance Cup, Nurburgring short circuit used for an 2 Stevens/Rast Audi the delayed sister WRT car of Nico first had make his way past Marlon event on the same bill as the German 3 Szymkowiak/ Muller and . Stockinger in the ISR Audi and then set Truck Grand Prix. Schneider Mercedes Norbert Siedler had charged from 11th about closing down gentleman driver “It felt like there was more grip after the to fifth in the Rinaldi GT3, a Ide. The problem was he ran out of time. rain [a couple of hours before the race], P53 FULL RESULTS position team-mate Marco Seefried was

50 JULY 7 2016 Parente GARY WATKINS Cup round at theendofthismonth. double-points Spa 24Hours Endurance the championshipjust yet. Notwiththe BGTS standings, thinking about isn’t who now hasa44-pointlead intheoverall his bidforfurthertitles. ButthenBell, champion Vanthoor neededto kickstart than seventh position. could finishthemainevent nobetter made inthepits, buttheBelgianduo on thegrid. More ground was, predictably, forcing hisway into thetop 10from 25th with ’s M-SportBentley. Vervisch sustained apuncture battling the way back to sixthbefore Frederic beginning afightback that brought itall WRT Audidropped aslow as30thbefore Bortolotti nudged . The triggered afirst-corner meleewhen Mirko Lamborghini Huracan GT3 that had the endoffirst race. second lap, theduoendingup10that Saturday when Buhkspunonoilthe was runningthird inthequalifieron German shared withDominikBaumann, The second oftheHTPMercs, which the sustained pressure from MaximilianBuhk. able to maintain despite coming under It wasn’t exactly what formerBlancpain Vervisch ledthecharge onSaturday, The oilhadbeendropped by theGrasser

BEROUD/VISION SPORT AGENCY Keselowski keeps hisKeselowski cool Scott joinsScott Renault winners Kaufmann Racing)andBoccolacci (Tech 1 to winby just underasecond. period. Scott, meanwhile, kept Norris at bay lined theRoggiachicane after asafety car and felleven furtherback when hestraight- slipstreamed hisway past into theParabolica, De Sadeleerthendropped to third when Norris to fourthbehindHugo deSadeleerandNorris. first corner from polesitter Boccolacci, who fell Sunday’s finaleafter snatching thelead into the extended hischampionshiplead. Monza asopening-race winnerLandoNorris Boccolacci took maidenEurocup victories at HARRISON SCOTT ANDDORIAN 3/7 ROUND JULY 2-3 (I) MONZA EUROCUP 22 cars forthebiggest incidentoftherace. track into JamieMcMurray onlap89, tangling Johnson slidhisHendrickChevrolet across the Kurt Buschspunoutat thefinalturn. from athree-wide team ofpursuers before an overtime lapthat puthimunderpressure kept hiscool andproved particularly resilient in and Kyle BuschandJoey Logano, Keselowski Ford Fusion andaggressive challenges from Kurt the majority ofthe161laps. Daytona winafter controlling thepack for eventful superspeedway race to claimhisfirst BRAD KESELOWSKI MASTERED AN 17/36 ROUND JULY 2 (USA) DAYTONA SPRINT CUP NASCAR THACKER/LAT Good starts hadallowed Norris(Josef AVF racer Scott drove asuperb race in Further cautions involving Carl Edwards and Keselowski was way ahead when Jimmie Despite overheating problems withhisPenske team-mate Logano shove from Penske Keselowski gets a at theParabolica Scott heads Norris

LENORMAND/DPPI Sadeleer; 5Nikita Troitskiy; 6Shwartzman. 27m44.129s; 2MaxDefourny +1.926s; 3Fenestraz; 4Hugo de 3 Boccolacci 95;4Scott 84;5Shwartzman 46;6Fenestraz 43.5. Bowyer (Chevy);10MichaelMcDowell(Chevy). (Chevrolet SS); 7Austin Dillon(Chevy);8Greg Biffle(Ford); 9Clint 4 JoeyLogano (Ford); 5RickyStenhouse Jr(Ford); 6Kyle Larson 2 Kyle Busch(Toyota +0.159s;3Trevor Camry) Bayne(Ford); 1 Brad Keselowski (Ford Fusion) Race 1 RESULTS Shwartzman; 6WillPalmer. Boccolacci +0.532s;3HarrisonScott; 4SachaFenestraz; 5Robert RESULTS Jr 0/433;15Ryan Newman 0/425;16Ryan Blaney0/409. 1/212; 12ChaseElliott0/482;13Dillon0/434;14DaleEarnhardt 9 DennyHamlin1/446;10MattKenseth 1/443;11Tony Stewart 6 Kurt Busch1/545;7Logano 1/531;8MartinTruex Jr1/482; Edwards 1/565; 2/527;4JimmieJohnson2/475;5Kevin Harvick 1 Keselowski 3wins/551points Aubry; 6Shwartzman. Aubry; in 27m00.033s;2Norris +0.840s;3Boccolacci; 4Defourny; 5Gabriel meanwhile, was sixthintheopener. the top five having started 15th. Palmer, ahead ofNikita Troitskiy, who completed of Curva Grande andendedboththeirraces. he madecontact withWill Palmer ontheexit car-prompting incidentinthenext race when in race one, butwas at thecentre ofasafety notable seventh place having started in16th winner SachaFenestraz. result oftheweekend –ahead ofMonaco rival MaxDefourny to take second –hisbest Scott 13th. That allowed Norris’s closest title second. Norrisfellback to finishseventh, pair ofBrits came together while fightingfor behind Norrisintheopener, butinrace two the slipstreaming ontheMonza straights. respectively on Saturday, staying ahead despite Racing) to take control ofraces oneandtwo position herequires to beChase-eligible. enough points to edge into thetop-30 points to go, buthisclassification in26thearned him over thelineat thefinish. who ledKyle Busch, Trevor Bayne andLogano unable to impact thedomination ofKeselowski, shuffledthemidfield, butwere De Sadeleerfinishedfourthinthat race Force India protege took a Boccolacci andScott completed thepodium Sonoma winnerStewart went outwith12laps

1 LandoNorris Points 15 laps in 27m47.123s; 2 Dorian 15 lapsin27m47.123s;2Dorian Race 2

1 Norris119 JULY 72016 ; 2 Kyle Busch 3/492; 3 Carl ; 2Kyle Busch3/492;3Carl 161 laps in 2h40m38s; 161 lapsin2h40m38s;

1 Boccolacci ; 2 Defourny 96.5; ; 2Defourny 96.5; Race 3 Chase grid 13 laps in 13lapsin

1 Scott 14 laps 14laps

51 Barbosa and Fittipaldi move in front in points RESULTS

GP2 SERIES

ROUND 4/11, RED BULL RING (A), JULY 2-3 RACE 1 (40 LAPS – 107.444 MILES) 1 (NZ) Campos Racing 1h18m32.399s 2 Sean Gelael (RI) Campos Racing +4.600s 3 Raffaele Marciello (I) Russian Time +10.789s 4 Luca Ghiotto (I) Trident +12.363s 5 (S) +12.691s 6 Oliver Rowland (GB) MP Motorsport +15.557s

LEVITT/LAT 7 (F) Racing Engineering +16.559s 8 Jordan King (GB) Racing Engineering +22.762s 9 (F) Rapax +24.738s 10 (CDN) DAMS +25.629s Action Express duo 11 Alex Lynn (GB) DAMS +27.000s 12 Sergey Sirotkin (RUS) ART Grand Prix +49.708s 13 Gustav Malja (S) Rapax +50.258s keeps Pla at bay 14 Daniel de Jong (NL) MP Motorsport -1 lap 15 Philo Paz Armand (RI) Trident -1 lap IMSA SPORTSCAR 16 Rene Binder (A) ART Grand Prix -2 laps WATKINS GLEN (USA) R Antonio Giovinazzi (I) Prema Racing 29 laps-alternator JULY 3 R (RUS) Russian Time 28 laps-accident ROUND 6/12 R Marvin Kirchhofer (D) Carlin 26 laps-spun/stalled R (F) Prema Racing 17 laps-spun off AND JOAO but was unable to find a way past the R Nabil Jeffri(MAL) Arden International 1 lap-accident damage Barbosa strengthened their quest for DP cars. All three were blanketed by R Sergio Canamasas (E) Carlin 0 laps-accident a third successive championship by less than a second at the finish. Winner’s average speed 82.080mph. controlling Sunday’s traditional Six / Fastest lap Evans 1m15.534s, 128.114mph. Hours of Watkins Glen. The pair’s repeated their 2015 PC class win for hard-earned victory for Action Starworks Motorsport. QUALIFYING Express Racing broke them out of a The Racing Ford GTs of 1 Sirotkin 1m13.663s; 2 Giovinazzi 1m13.669s; 3 Gasly 1m13.803s; tie with Detroit-winning brothers / and 4 Ghiotto 1m14.091s; 5 Markelov 1m14.099s; 6 Marciello 1m14.184s; Ricky and Jordan Taylor, who, joined Joey Hand/Dirk Muller maintained 7 Rowland 1m14.316s; 8 Lynn 1m14.387s; 9 Nato 1m14.456s; by veteran Max Angelelli, had to be their Le Mans form by convincingly 10 Evans 1m14.574s; 11 Kirchhofer 1m14.647s; 12 Pic 1m14.688s; 13 King content with a fourth-place finish. winning the GTLM category despite a 1m14.815s; 14 Jeffri1m14.626s*; 15 Binder 1m14.886s; 16 Malja 1m15.020s; Canamasas Gelael de Jong The race, held in glorious weather stout challenge from the Team RLL 17 1m14.832s*; 18 1m15.112s; 19 1m15.307s; 20 Latifi 1m14.958s*; 21 Armand 1m15.675s; 22 Eriksson 1m15.531s**. and witnessed by an enthusiastic BMW M6 GTLM of /Bill * grid penalty. ** made to start from pitlane. Fourth of July holiday crowd, featured Auberlen, while /Jeff a titanic battle between two distinctly Segal/ bolstered RACE 2 (28 LAPS – 75.187 MILES) different genres of prototypes. The their GTD points lead with a typically 1 King 44m34.966s; 2 Rowland +6.019s; 3 Lynn +7.702s; 4 Marciello P2-derived cars, led by a pair each of hard-fought class win. +10.234s; 5 Giovinazzi +10.417s; 6 Sirotkin +11.821s; 7 Gasly +12.594s; Lola- and Ligier-, held JEREMY SHAW 8 Evans +12.881s; 9 Ghiotto +15.878s; 10 Canamasas +35.019s; an advantage on outright pace, but the 11 Markelov +57.740s; 12 Nato +1m00.076s; 13 Eriksson +1m00.107s; older and heavier DP cars, spearheaded RESULTS 14 Armand +1m16.880s; 15 Binder +1m17.325s; 16 Malja -1 lap; by Fittipaldi/Barbosa and team-mates 1 Joao Barbosa/Christian Fittipaldi (Coyote 17 Jeffri-1 lap; 18 Pic -1 lap; 19 Kirchhofer -1 lap; 20 de Jong -1 lap; /, enjoyed Corvette DP) 197 laps in 6h00m21.671s; 2 Dane R Latifi 20 laps-spun off; R Gelael 3 laps-collision. superior torque, which ensured a Cameron/Eric Curran (Coyote Corvette DP) +0.709s; Winner’s average speed 101.187mph. Fastest lap decisive edge on cold tyres. 3 /Oswaldo Negri Jr/ (Ligier-Honda Nato 1m22.155s, 117.789mph. Johannes van Overbeek made full use JSP2); 4 /Jordan Taylor/Max Angelelli GRID FOR RACE 2 of a super-smooth new track surface to (Dallara Corvette DP); 5 Tom Long/Joel Miller/Ben Decided by result of Race 1, with top eight finishers reversed. decimate the old track record and lead Devlin (Lola- B12/80); 6 Marc Goossens/Ryan convincingly in the opening stages Dalziel (Coyote Corvette DP). PC 1 Renger van der CHAMPIONSHIP aboard the ESM team’s Ligier. After Zande/Alex Popow; 2 James French/Kyle Marcelli/ 1 Marciello 66; 2 Evans 56; 3 Nato 55; 4 Markelov 54; 5 Rowland 54; the car fell back to seventh following Kenton Koch; 3 Mark Kvamme/Remo Ruscitti/Richard 6 Giovinazzi 52; 7 Lynn 51; 8 Gasly 47; 9 King 45; 10 Sirotkin 40. a poor first pitstop, and Bradley. GTLM 1 Richard Westbrook/Ryan Briscoe team co-owner Scott Sharp fought (Ford GT); 2 Joey Hand/Dirk Muller (Ford); 3 Bill their way back into contention before Auberlen/Dirk Werner (BMW M6 GTLM); 4 / suffering an engine failure with just ( C7.R); 5 Alessandro over an hour remaining. Pier Guidi/Daniel Serra (Ferrari 488 GTE); 6 Giancarlo The Speed Source Lola-Mazda of Fisichella/ (Ferrari). GTD 1 Christina Tristan Nunez/Spencer Pigot/Jonathan Nielsen/Alessandro Balzan/Jeff Segal (Ferrari 488 Bomarito ran strongly, despite some GT3); 2 /John Potter/Dion von Moltke (Audi less-than-stellar pitstops, before R8 LMS); 3 /Alex Riberas/Ian James dropping out of third, also with engine (Porsche 911 GT3-R). Points 1 Fittipaldi/Barbosa 187; trouble, with less than 40 minutes to 2= Taylor/Taylor & Curran/Cameron 180. PC 1 Popow/ go. That set the scene for a battle van der Zande 198; 2 Robert Alon/Tom Kimber- between the Action Express team- Smith 186; 3 Mikhail Goikhberg/Stephen Simpson 182. mates, plus Michael Shank Racing’s GTLM 1 Gavin/Milner 159; 2 Westbrook/Briscoe 151; Gasly and Giovinazzi Ligier in the hands of Olivier Pla. The 3 Werner/Auberlen 141. GTD 1 Nielsen/Balzan 162; fought for lead in race one Frenchman set a blistering lap record 2 Farnbacher/Riberas 149; 3 Potter/Lally 141. XPB IMAGES

52 JULY 7 2016 ROUND-UP

GP3 SERIES BLANCPAIN GT SPRINT CUP

ROUND 2/9, RED BULL RING (A), JULY 2-3 ROUND 3/5, NURBURGRING (D), JULY 2-3 RACE 1 (24 LAPS – 64.435 MILES) MAIN RACE (41 LAPS – 92.453 MILES) 1 Charles Leclerc (MC) ART Grand Prix 35m01.756s 1 Rob Bell (GB) Alvaro Parente (P) Garage 59 · McLaren 650S GT3 1h01m26.599s 2 Alexander Albon (T) ART Grand Prix +2.292s 2 (GB) Rene Rast (D) WRT · Audi R8 LMS +2.090s 3 Nyck de Vries (NL) ART Grand Prix +8.949s 3 Jules Szymkowiak (NL) Bernd Schneider (D) HTP Motorsport · Mercedes-AMG GT3 +10.697s 4 Ralph Boschung (CH) Koiranen GP +11.840s 4 Enzo Ide (B) Christopher Mies (D) WRT · Audi R8 LMS +13.736s 5 Antonio Fuoco (I) Trident +13.131s 5 Norbert Siedler (A) Marco Seefried (D) Rinaldi Racing · Ferrari 488 GT3 +22.523s 6 Matt Parry (GB) Koiranen GP +15.494s 6 Dominik Baumann (A) (D) HTP Motorsport · Mercedes-AMG GT3 +23.348s 7 (J) ART Grand Prix +16.694s 7 Frederic Vervisch (B) Laurens Vanthoor (B) WRT · Audi R8 LMS +23.913s 8 Jake Hughes (GB) DAMS +18.500s 8 (NL) (B) Rowe Racing · BMW M6 GT3 +36.159s 9 (GB) Arden International +19.129s 9 Alexander Sims (GB) (A) Rowe Racing · BMW M6 GT3 +44.988s 10 Sandy Stuvik (T) Trident +20.726s 10 (F) (S) ASP · Mercedes-AMG GT3 +45.847s 11 Artur Janosz (PL) Trident +43.114s 11 Rodrigo Baptista (BR) Sergio Jimenez (BR) WRT · Audi R8 LMS +46.385s 12 Akash Nandy (MAL) +45.524s 12 Romain Monti (F) Edward Sandstrom (S) Sainteloc Racing · Audi R8 LMS +50.877s 13 Kevin Jorg (CH) DAMS +45.621s 13 Michele Beretta (I) Luca Stolz (D) GRT · Lamborghini Huracan GT3 +53.342s 14 Oscar Tunjo (CO) Jenzer Motorsport +46.119s 14 Mitsunori Takaboshi (J) Alex Buncombe (GB) GT Academy Team RJN · Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 +56.358s 15 Santino Ferrucci (USA) DAMS +46.534s 15 Nicolaj Moller Madsen (DK) (D) Phoenix Racing · Audi R8 LMS +57.137s 16 Alex Palou (E) Campos Racing +47.672s 16 Ezequiel Perez Companc (RA) Raffaele Giammaria(I) AF Corse · Italia GT3 +57.508s 17 Tatiana Calderon (CO) Arden International +54.379s 17 Mike Parisy (F) Christopher Haase (D) Sainteloc Racing · Audi R8 LMS +57.908s 18 Konstantin Tereschenko (RUS) Campos Racing 23 laps-acc damage 18 Stuart Leonard (GB) Michael Meadows (GB) WRT · Audi R8 LMS +1m03.578s 19 Richard Gonda (SK) Jenzer Motorsport 23 laps-accident 19 (I) Patric Niederhauser (CH) Attempto Racing · Lamborghini Huracan GT3 +1m04.132s 20 Steijn Schothorst (NL) Campos Racing -1 lap 20 (D) (CZ) ISR · Audi R8 LMS +1m04.740s R (RUS) Koiranen GP 4 laps-steering wheel 21 Max van Splunteren (NL) Jeroen Mul (NL) Attempto Racing · Lamborghini Huracan GT3 +1m06.737s R Jake Dennis (GB) Arden International 3 laps-throttle sensor 22 Niki Mayr-Melnhof (A) (D) Phoenix Racing · Audi R8 LMS +1m08.601s NS (F) Trident accident in practice 23 Jazeman Jaafar (MAL) Clemens Schmid (A) HTP Motorsport · Mercedes-AMG GT3 +1m13.404s Winner’s average speed 110.367mph. Fastest lap Leclerc 1m20.859s, 24 (I) Stefan Rosina (SK) GRT Grasser Racing Team · Lamborghini Huracan GT3 +1m21.155s 119.677mph. 25 Marlon Stockinger (RP) Franck Perera (F) ISR · Audi R8 LMS +1m21.437s 26 Michal Broniszewski (PL) Giacomo Piccini (I) Kessel Racing · Ferrari 488 GT3 +1m25.002s QUALIFYING 27 Jean-Luc Beaubelique (F) Morgan Moullin Traffort (F) ASP · Mercedes-AMG GT3 -1 lap 1 Leclerc 1m19.041s; 2 Albon 1m19.567s; 3 de Vries 1m19.734s; 28 Claudio Sdanewitsch (D) Stephane Lemeret (B) AF Corse · Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 -1 lap 4 Boschung 1m19.775s; 5 Fukuzumi 1m19.842s; 6 Parry 1m19.868s; 29 Ricardo Sanchez (MEX) Sean Walkinshaw (GB) Nissan GT Academy Team RJN · Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 -1 lap 7 Tunjo 1m19.878s; 8 Dennis 1m19.917s; 9 Hughes 1m19.925s; 30 Christophe Bourret (F) Jean-Philippe Belloc (F) ASP · Mercedes-AMG GT3 -1 lap 10 Ferrucci 1m19.980s; 11 Fuoco 1m20.080s; 12 Stuvik 1m20.102s; 31 Didi Gonzales (D) Sebastian Asch (D) Team a-workx · Porsche 911 GT3-R -1 lap 13 Calderon 1m20.104s; 14 Janosz 1m20.126s; 15 Aitken 1m20.227s; 32 Andy Soucek (E) (B) Bentley Team M-Sport · Bentley Continental GT3 -1 lap 16 Isaakyan 1m20.294s; 17 Palou 1m20.309s; 18 Schothorst 1m20.378s; 33 Steve Parrow (D) Christian Hook (D) Rinaldi Racing · Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 -2 laps 19 Jorg 1m20.429s; 20 Gonda 1m20.579s; 21 Nandy 1m20.593s; 34 Nico Muller (CH) Dries Vanthoor (B) WRT · Audi R8 LMS 34 laps-pitstop infringement/parked 22 Tereschenko 1m20.651s. R (GB) Come Ledogar (F) Garage 59 · McLaren 650S GT3 12 laps-engine R (F) (GB) Bentley Team M-Sport · Bentley Continental GT3 5 laps-accident damage RACE 2 (17 LAPS – 45.619 MILES) R Nicolas Pohler (D) (I) GRT Grasser Racing Team · Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2 laps-accident damage 1 Boschung 33m57.642s; 2 Albon +0.841s; 3 Fuoco +1.784s; Winner’s average speed 90.281mph. Fastest lap Perera 1m27.387s, 92.895mph. 4 de Vries +2.276s; 5 Aitken +2.440s; 6 Hughes +3.103s; 7 Parry +3.486s; 8 Stuvik +4.802s; 9 Janosz +5.038s; 10 Ferrucci +6.017s; 11 Palou +6.169s; QUALIFYING RACE (39 LAPS – 87.943 MILES) 12 Schothorst +7.080s; 13 Tunjo +7.349s; 14 Jorg +9.539s; R Dennis 14 1 Mies/Ide 1h00m18.264s; 2 Parente/Bell +0.304s; 3 Rast/Stevens +5.324s; 4 Perera/Stockinger +8.335s; 5 D Vanthoor/ laps-accident damage; R Calderon 13 laps-accident; R Leclerc 13 Muller +17.883s; 6 Soulet/Soucek +26.844s; 7 Eng/Sims +29.562s; 8 Schneider/Szymkowiak +31.755s; 9 Martin/ laps-accident; R Nandy 10 laps-grass in radiators/overheating/engine in Dusseldorp +35.552s; 10 Buhk/Baumann +35.775s; 11 Seefried/Siedler +36.948s; 12 Niederhauser/Zampieri +40.134s; safety mode; R Tereschenko 9 laps-spun off; RIsaakyan 8 laps-electronics; 13 Jimenez/Baptista +41.746s; 14 Schmid/Jaafar +42.365s; 15 Stolz/Beretta +52.213s; 16 Buncombe/Takaboshi R Gonda 5 laps-grass in radiators/overheating/engine in safety mode; +53.159s; 17 Rosina/Valsecchi +53.478s; 18 Piccini/Broniszewski +56.234s; 19 Sandstrom/Monti +56.758s; 20 Pommer/ R Fukuzumi 1 lap-water temperature. Moller Madsen +1m02.938s; 21 Winkelhock/Mayr-Melnhof +1m04.186s; 22 Mul/van Splunteren +1m06.119s; 23 Kane/ Winner’s average speed 80.596mph. Abril +1m06.593s; 24 L Vanthoor/Vervisch +1m14.750s; 25 Walkinshaw/Sanchez +1m17.560s; 26 Moullin Traffort/ Fastest lap Boschung 1m35.850s, 100.959mph. Beaubelique +1m21.940s; 27 Rosenqvist/Vautier +1m47.870s; 28 Meadows/Leonard -1 lap; 29 Lemeret/Sdanewitsch -1 lap; 30 Belloc/Bourret -1 lap; 31 Haase/Parisy 35 laps-gearbox; 32 Hook/Parrow -6 laps; 33 Giammaria/Perez GRID FOR RACE 2 Companc -7 laps; R Ledogar/Plowman 25 laps-engine; R Salaquarda/Stippler 2 laps-accident damage; R Bortolotti/ Decided by result of Race 1, with top eight finishers reversed. Pohler 1 lap-accident damage/oil leak; NS Asch/Gonzales suspension. Winner’s average speed 87.499mph. Fastest lap Perera 1m28.793s, 91.424mph. CHAMPIONSHIP In each car in each race, first-named driver started the race. 1 Leclerc 58; 2 Albon 53; 3 Fuoco 42; 4 Hughes 31; 5 de Vries 31; 6 Boschung 30; 7 Fukuzumi 21; 8 Tunjo 18; 9 Dennis 14; 10 Jorg 12. QUALIFYING Q3 1 Parente 1m26.218s; 2 Mies 1m26.317s; 3 Buhk 1m26.470s; 4 L Vanthoor 1m26.478s; 5 Salaquarda 1m26.491s; 6 Rast 1m26.515s; 7 Winkelhock 1m26.531s; 8 Bortolotti 1m26.565s; 9 Perera 1m26.597s; 10 Eng 1m26.611s; Ide and Mies 11 D Vanthoor 1m26.762s; 12 Niederhauser 1m26.770s; 13 Haase 1m26.799s; 14 Siedler 1m26.839s; won Blancpain qualifying race 15 Piccini 1m26.908s; 16 Soulet 1m27.022s; 17 Stolz 1m27.240s; 18 Mul 1m27.294s; 19 Ledogar no time. Q1/2 20 Rosenqvist 1m27.196s; 21 Meadows 1m27.198s; 22 Martin 1m27.238s; 23 Jimenez 1m27.276s; 24 Szymkowiak 1m27.286s; 25 Rosina 1m27.361s; 26 Abril 1m27.383s; 27 Schmid 1m27.395s; 28 Pommer 1m27.438s; 29 Takaboshi 1m27.493s; 30 Moullin Traffort 1m27.493s; 31 Giammaria 1m27.547s; 32 Lemeret 1m27.696s; 33 Walkinshaw 1m27.832s; 34 Belloc 1m28.306s; 35 Parrow 1m29.391s; 36 Asch 1m27.584s*; 37 Sandstrom no time. * grid penalty.

CHAMPIONSHIP 1 Bell/Parente 56; 2 Ide/Mies 53; 3 Szymkowiak/Schneider 47; 4 L Vanthoor/Vervisch 38; 5 Baumann/Buhk 34; 6 Soucek/Soulet 24; 7 Eng/Sims 23; 8 Stevens/Rast 22; 9 Perera/Stockinger 20; 10 Siedler/Seefried 19. Overall Blancpain GT 1 Bell 122; 2 Buhk/Baumann 78; 3 Ledogar 66; 4 van Gisbergen 66; 5 L Vanthoor/Vervisch 58;

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TEAM PARKER RACING will return to the GT4 division of British GT after taking over the running of the Porsche Cayman driven by Nick Jones and with immediate effect. The Jones/Malvern Cayman Clubsport GT4 was run by the Simpson Motorsport team during the most recent round at Silverstone. The pair, who began the BRITISH GT season in a Ginetta G55 also run by Simpson, finished 16th in the Top Merc team joins Brit GT field basic-spec Porsche, but have now split from the LEADING MERCEDES TEAM BLACK FALCON WILL RUN on one hand it’s a great chance for a warm-up, but we also Simpson team. two cars in this weekend’s British GT Championship round wanted to have a closer look and experience British GT. The deal is in addition at Spa as it evaluates a full-time move into the series. “Oliver used to race in British GT and wanted to have to Team Parker’s existing The German squad will field two Mercedes-AMG GT3s another crack at it, and it’s a very strong series at the factory deal with Bentley in the two-hour race, with Briton Oliver Morley sharing moment. There’s a good mixture of professional drivers in the GT3 class. the first with DTM driver and 2012 FIA European F3 and talented amateurs, so we know it won’t be easy. Team head Stuart champion , and Abdulaziz Al Faisal “I’d like to think this race will lead to more British GT Parker said: “It was sharing the second with Miguel Toril. appearances, but we’ll have to see how it goes.” always our intention to Black Falcon has a strong history in GT3 racing, having Breslin added that the Balance of Performance for the get back into GT4, but we won the Nurburgring 24 Hours twice, including running Mercedes could be tricky at Spa. “We have a small engine wanted to spend a year Briton to victory in this year’s event. restrictor, so the long straights could hurt us,” he said. getting truly bedded in The squad also regularly competes in the Blancpain GT “The Mercedes has a lot of aero to aid cornering, but with GT3 and Bentley. Series, VLN and Creventic 24-Hour Series. also has quite a lot of drag compared to the other GT3 cars. “We have two Cayman Team boss Sean Paul Breslin said: “All four drivers will “But we have four strong drivers, so it will certainly GT4s of our own that be running together in the [July 30-31], so be an interesting weekend.” we were always going to run next season, so this deal has sped up that programme and BRITISH GT will keep the Porsche brand on the grid.” Abbott swaps Chevy Cruze for Lambo Huracan Jones added: “It didn’t work out with BRITISH TOURING CAR the Austrian team’s regular “My old GT engineer now “It will be the first time that Simpson and without Championship racer Hunter racer, Swiss driver Rolf works for Grasser, and he I have driven a car with all the Team Parker it would Abbott will take part in the Ineichen, for the two-hour got in touch about this electronic gizmos, so it will have been season over. next round of the British GT race in Belgium. Abbott, opportunity,” said Abbott. be a challenge. We haven’t done a day Championship at Spa at the who raced GT cars between “We are in the middle of “But what better a track with the team yet but I wheel of a Grasser Racing 2006 and 2009, regularly a long break between BTCC to experience that on than know they are hugely Lamborghini Huracan. drives a races and this fitted in at Spa? It was an offer I professional and will The 35-year-old will join in the BTCC. perfectly for me. couldn’t turn down.” help us get the most out of the Cayman.”

66 JULY 7 2016 race debut ready for Donington Park onJuly 17. hour-long event at ace ChrisWard inthe Gibson andhistoric racing Clubmans Cupracer Daniel be driven by former the Prototype Series. debut inthenext round of will give its new GH-20its manufacturer Gibson BRITISH SPORTSCAR BRITCAR he solditto Belgianracer Marc Devis. breaking hisleg inaroad accident. Last year BSCC butputitinto storage in’75 after this summerafter fourdecades away. Championship willreturn to racing Howes intheBritishSaloonCar THE AMCJAVELIN RACED BY DAVID SILVERSTONE CLASSIC CN-spec GH-20 isthelatest FIA Javelin tomake racing comeback Gibson CN Gibson CN The two-litre 2 The new machinewill Howes raced thecar inthe1972 and’73 Cocker toCocker continue in Britcar Aston BRITCAR Whitebridge Motorsport Thruxton after aninvite from Martin Vantage GT4 at place ofJodyFannin. Endurance Seriesseason in contest therest oftheBritcar champion JonnyCocker will FORMER BRITISHGT Cocker raced anAston sportscar designed 55bhp 55bhp Swinnerton. “W GH19,” saidGibson’s Mike a bigstep forward from the years inthemakingandis Clubmans range. produces theNemesis by Gibson, which also rest oftheseason.” asked ifIwanted to dothe thing ledto anotherandhe with Drayson Racing. One engineers ontheLMP1Idrove Cocker. “Chriswas oneof the Chris onsometuition,” said team-mate ChrisMurphy. “The GH20hasbeenafew “I’ve beenworkingwith e’ve made certainly appealed to me.” with thesameowner since the1970s and thefact that theJavelin hadbeensitting reputation forspecialprojects like this, Challenge at theSilverstone Classic. back to racing intheHistoric Touring Car Devis said: “I have somethingofa Now Devis willbringthe6.4-litre car frontal downforce.” a bigimprovement in new aero parts, which give suspension geometry and the FIA crash tests. to improve thesafety for subtle changes to thechassis “We have new wishbones,

EBREY/LAT series thisyear,includingwinningaGTOpenraceatSpa. having contestedselectedeventsofdifferentsportscar title winnerwilljointheProject1teamforround, Porsche SupercupatSilverstonethisweekend.The2014 when hecompetesintheBritishGrandPrix-supporting a 991Cupcarforthefirsttimesinceleavingseries Porsche CarreraCupGBchampionJoshWebsterwillrace WEBSTER ONBRITISHGPSUPPORTBILL and more than20Mightycarsare expectedatBrands. in thechampionshippermitbeinggiven.Twelve Super switch fromtheBRSCCtoBARCfor2016,andadelay with justfourcarstakingpartinthefirstroundaftera weekend. TheSupercategoryhasstruggledforentries, time thisyearattheBrandsHatchMiniFestivalnext Super andMightyMiniswillhavesplitgridsforthefirst MINIS SPLITGRIDSTORETURNATBRANDS engines. Allthree races were wonbyKonrad Czaczyk. Crawford Composites andpowered bytwo-litre Honda out three races, drivingchassisbuiltbyUS constructor weekend atMid-Ohio. A14-car field(below)fought The FIA’s F4initiativefinallykicked offintheUS last FIA F4GETS GOINGINTHEUSA now leading thechampionship. won byNickRowe andWilliamBrown, withBrown Eastern Creek) lastweekend. Theothertworaces were Australian Motorsport F4seriesatSydney Park (formerly Luis Leeds scored return onewinonaone-off to hisnative British Formula 4Championshipracer andRed Bulljunior LEEDS TAKES WINONHOMEOUTING has persuadedthegoverningbodytoallowitcompete. competition, butthecar’sownerandbuilderBobDyke the MSAhadbannedsteamcarsfromtakingpartin Chateau Impneythisweekend.UntillastSeptember as ‘WhistlingBilly’willmakeitscompetitiondebutat The recreationofthe1905WhiteSteamRacerknown CENTURY-OLD STEAMCARTORACE squad isbehindtheAcademy. TVR TuscanracerJayShepherd’sTeam7Racing karters makethetransitiontocarracing.Former A newFunCupAcademyhasbeensetuptohelp FUN CUPSQUADSETSUPACADEMY IN BRIEF JULY 72016 67 WALKER HRDC Jaguar saloon series launched 68 There seemto bemore Mk1scoming outthanever, the HRDCandthere are more bubbling below thesurface. touring cars away from thesportscars,” saidThurgood. this inabigway andthere isastrong needto runthe Mk7s andsuccessful Mk1sandMk2s. “We’ve looked into offer aseries forJaguarsaloons, covering thelumbering models ofatype that raced inperiodfrom 1950 to ’66. unveiled theCoombs JaguarChallenge forall saloon Academy Series forAustin A30/35 cars, theHRDChas be runin2017 by theHistoric RacingDrivers Club. A NEW RACE SERIES FOR PRE-1966 JAGUARS WILL CLUB AUTOSPORT

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BRANDS HATCH HSCC JULY 1-3 Leone roars to epic F3 double at Brands ITALIAN VALERIO LEONE’S CLASSIC slicks came into their own, but Dwyer Formula 3 double in a sensational field, (March-BDG 742) thwarted Evans’s including period returnees Ian Flux and attacks under enormous pressure. Richard Trott, topped the rebranded They finished nose-to-tail with Frazer Legends of Brands Hatch Superprix. Gibney’s March-BMW 782 third. Evans Leone shot his ex-Teo Fabi March 783 streaked away from Dean Forward (782) from fifth to second in two laps on and Dwyer in Sunday’s sunshine as triple Saturday, then hounded David Shaw’s champion Robert Simac (March 712) RT1 until its battery wilted. As suppressed Marty Bullock (Chevron Gaius Ghinn (Ralt-VW RT3), Flux (783) B17C) and Paul Bason (ex- and the Chevrons of Max Bartell (B34) 712) for a 1600cc double. and Fred Lajoux (B43) ganged up behind, The Formula Junior Diamond Jubilee Leone bagged a resounding win. World Tour trifecta featured 99 starters. Leone led throughout on Sunday, but Stuart Roach (Alexis Mk2) stole front- Leone took his March Patrick Watts () and Stewart CF3 rookie Cameron Jackson (ex-Oscar engined gold, pipping Ray Mallock (U2) 783 to a brace of GP Whyte (Honda) kept him focused in the Larrauri March- 813) was after fuel surge hobbled runaway leader circuit F3 wins touring cars. F2 winner Mark Dwyer led homing in with Ghinn, Bartell and Flux Chris Drake’s downdraught carburetted the DBT chases ahead of mighty Mallock when he stopped at Dingle Dell. Bartell Terrier. Drake won the rear-engined handler Mark Charteris. usurped Ghinn three laps from home and drum-braked split, however; his Elva 300 Charles Barter was again unflappable clung on to a British class-winning second ran clear of James Hicks (Caravelle) and in ’70s Road Sports: the Lotus Europas as they carved through lapped traffic. German Ivo Goeckman’s Jolus. of son Julian and Jim Dean scrapped A shower before Saturday’s FIA F2 race The 1962-63 disc-braked race was the in his Datsun 240Z’s mirrors having brought a tyre quandary and poleman most open. Andrew Hibberd () passed Peter Shaw’s TVR as it shed a Richard Evans (in Hugh Price’s ICI/Derek and Cameron Jackson ( BT2) had front wheel. Dean bagged second when Daly tribute Chevron-Hart B42) knew displaced James Murray (Lola Mk5A) Barter Jr missed gears. HRS polesitter immediately that his slicks call was before Roach’s Alexis Mk4 lost a rear John Davison (Elan S3) outran Shaw’s optimistic. After a safety car erased wheel at – following a tap – front-brakeless S1 in Sunday’s Historic wet-shod Mark Dwyer’s 17-second lead, which triggered a caution. Murray stanza. Second qualifier Ian Burford redoubled his efforts at the green, (Ginetta G4) recovered from an abysmal Wet-tyre management demoting Jackson, but Hibberd prevailed. start to land his first podium. kept Dwyer ahead of Michael Lyons’s versatility now At the scene of his Chequered Flag Evans in first F2 race extends to tin tops, because after having Brabham BT18’s period driver Chris won both races in New Irwin’s F1 debut in 1966, Andrew Hibberd Zealander Lindsay O’Donnell’s Volvo S40 spanked 1000cc F3 rivals both days. he leapt into the ex-John Love Formula 1 Poleman James Denty (ex- Surtees TS9 for a Derek Bell Trophy ) slipped to third behind Simon double in F5000-rich Historic Race of Armer (March 703) on Saturday but retired Champions contests. from race two, with Peter Thompson

Forward (March-BMW 782); 6 Robert (Caravelle Mk3) +17.227s; 3 Ivo Romeo 156); 5 Simon Garrad (Opel (-Ford RF82); Daniel Pyett RESULTS Simac (March-BDA 712). CW Simac; Goeckman (Jolus FJ); 4 Stuart Roach Vectra); 6 Mark Smith (BMW E30 M3). (Tecno F2). FL Lyons 1m25.737s CLASSIC F3 (14 LAPS) 1 Valerio Max Blees (Brabham-FVC BT30). FL (Condor SIII); 5 John Chisholm (Gemini CW M Smith; Keith Butcher (Audi A4); (102.16mph). P Lyons. S 24. RACE 2 Leone (March 783); 2 Gaius Ghinn Dwyer 1m37.965s (89.42mph). P Evans. Mk3A); 6 Laine Martin (). CW Scott O’Donnell (Ford Mondeo). FL 1 Lyons; 2 Dwyer +18.739s; 3 Hall; 4 (Ralt RT3) +1.985s; 3 Ian Flux (March S 17. RACE 2 (14 LAPS) 1 Evans; Nick Finburgh (Envoy Mk1); Simon Whyte 1m34.969s (92.23mph). P Lyons. Neil Glover (Lola-Chevrolet T330/332); 783); 4 Maxim Bartell (Chevron B34); 2 Forward +13.648s; 3 Dwyer; 4 Richard Durling (); Gregan Thruston S 19. RACE 2 (12 LAPS) 1 Lyons; 5 Daryl Taylor (Chevron-Chevrolet B28); 5 Fred Lajoux (Chevron B43); 6 Richard Meins (March-BMW 772); 5 Gibney; (Lotus 20). FL Drake 1m43.838s 2 Whyte +4.534s; 3 N Smith; 4 Watts; 6 Atkinson. CW Dwyer; Hall; Atkinson; Trott (Chevron B43). Class winners 6 Wheatley. CW Simac; Blees. FL Evans (84.35mph). P Drake. S 32. 5 Mark Lemmer (Honda Accord); Donn; Rob Wainwright (Crossle 18F); Ghinn; Adrian Langridge (Dastle Mk10); 1m26.011s (101.83mph). P Dwyer. S 17. FORMULA JUNIOR, REAR-ENGINED 6 M Smith. CW M Smith; Mark Wright John Harrison (Mallock Mk21); Robert Ian Pearson (Van Diemen RF83/82). FJHRA FORMULA JUNIOR, DISC BRAKES (11 LAPS) 1 Andrew (Ford Escort RS1800); Butcher. FL Lyons Cracknell (Reynard SF84). FL Lyons Fastest lap Leone 1m32.078s FRONT-ENGINED (11 LAPS) 1 Stuart Hibberd (Lotus 22); 2 James Murray 1m35.508s (91.71mph). P Lyons. S 18. 1m26.374s (101.41mph). P Lyons. S 21. (95.12mph). Pole Ghinn. Starters 38. Roach (Alexis Mk2); 2 Ray Mallock (Lola Mk5A) +2.028s; 3 Cameron DEREK BELL TROPHY (BOTH 14 70S ROAD SPORTS (10 LAPS) RACE 2 (13 LAPS) 1 Leone; 2 Bartell (U2 Mk2) +0.900s; 3 Mark Woodhouse Jackson (Brabham BT2); 4 Sam Wilson LAPS) 1 Michael Lyons (Surtees-DFV 1 Charles Barter (Datsun 240Z); +2.401s; 3 Ghinn; 4 Lajoux; 5 Flux; (Elva 100); 4 Andrew Tart (Bond FJ); 5 (Lotus 20/22); 5 Manfredo Rossi di TS9); 2 Mark Dwyer (March-BDG 742) 2 James Dean () +3.463s; 6 Trott. CW Bartell; Langridge. Robin Longdon (Lola Mk2); 6 Michael Montelera (Lotus 22); 6 Callum Grant +13.695s; 3 Mark Charteris (Mallock- 3 Julian Barter (Lotus Europa); 4 Mark FL Cameron Jackson (March 813) Hibberd (Lola Mk2). CW Tony Olissoff (Merlyn Mk5/7). CW Malcolm Wishart Ford Mk20/21); 4 Adrian Hall (Trojan- Leverett (); 5 John Williams 1m31.242s (95.99mph). P Leone. S 32. (Elfin Mk1); Tom De Gres (Stanguellini (Cooper T65). FL Murray 1m40.010s Chevrolet T101); 5 Paul Campfield (Porsche 911SC); 6 Steve Skipworth HISTORIC F2 (11 LAPS) 1 Mark Dwyer FJ). FL Roach 1m46.347s (82.36mph). (87.58mph). P Hibberd. S 32. (Chevron-Chevrolet B28); 6 Simon (Lotus Europa). CW Dean; Chris Fisher (March-BDG 742); 2 Richard Evans P Mallock. S 35. SUPER TOURING (10 LAPS) 1 Michael Taylor (Chevron-Chevrolet B28). CW (MG Arkley); Neil Brown (). (Chevron-Hart B42) +0.119s; 3 Frazer FORMULA JUNIOR, REAR-ENGINED Lyons (Volvo S40); 2 Patrick Watts Dwyer; Charteris; Hall; Martyn Donn Inv Jim Baynam (MGB). FL J Barter Gibney (March-BMW 782); 4 Jeremy DRUM BRAKES (12 LAPS) 1 Chris (Peugeot 406) +1.611s; 3 Stewart Whyte (Lola-BDA T760); Chris Atkinson 1m46.606s (82.16mph). P C Barter. S 20. Wheatley (Surtees-BDG TS15); 5 Dean Drake (Elva 300); 2 James Hicks (Honda Accord); 4 Neil Smith (Alfa (Surtees-Chevrolet TS8); Marc Mercer HISTORIC F3 (BOTH 12 LAPS)

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Voyazides/Hadfield won twice together, including 80s Endurance success

and class debutant Mark Pangborn but was banished to the back for a carb- Lyons tasted success in Corfield (Austin-Healey 3000) were () completing that podium. gasket irregularity– scythed to fifth, single-seaters (above overjoyed with second ahead of Canadian With Charlie Allison’s and James ahead of former F1 racer Tiff Needell. in Derek Bell Trophy) Read Gomm’s Jaguar E-type. Brands Schryver’s Chevron B8s beached at Bartell almost deposed Grant, who held and in Super Tourers specialist Wil Arif relayed TVR Grantura Paddock Hill, Ben Mitchell controlled on for win number five and leads the owner Malcolm Paul to GT2 honours. the Guards Trophy race in Michael championship to Croft. Circuit debutant The shrill Cosworth DFV note of Schryver’s B6. When Michael took over Benn Tilley set another superb fastest lap the Voyazides/Hadfield Lola T282 Richard Piper (Brahma) reeled him in, but and took third from Mark Shaw. resonated through the trees en route to a clash at Stirlings put Piper out, gifting URS standout Ian Pearson slid off a straightforward 80s Endurance win. victory to Max Bartell/Callum Grant at Sheene Curve, ceding the FF2000 On the smoky demise of Manfredo (ex-Keith St John Radio London advantage to Historic points leader Andy Rossi’s Abarth PA1, the G-CAT Elva-BMW Mk7S). Park, who just bested Classic winner Marc March-BDG 75Ss of Richard Piper/Greg Grant had Leo Voyazides’ Shelby Cobra Mercer. Despite a spin at Surtees, Pearson Caton and Doug Hart finished second Daytona Coupe bellowing in his wake, pipped Nelson Rowe to third. The race and third, 1.3 seconds apart. finisher Simon Hadfield having shaken was made by the CRC set – Andy Jarvis Leo and Simon split for a Touring off Philip Nelson’s B8. John Davison (Palliser twin-cam) made the initial one-two in Voyazides’ Falcon and Lotus extended his points lead with another running, but Singapore commuter Daniel Cortina, ahead of Rob Fenn (Mustang) classy win in his ‘Gold Bug’ Elan, while Pyett screamed his pristine BDA-powered and Bob Bullen’s Anglia as Simon Andrew Hibberd mirrored his result in Tecno ahead as the closely matched duo Benoy (Hillman Imp) stretched his the Lotus 23B started by father Michael. battled to fifth and sixth overall. championship lead. Grant and Bartell saddled their With Craig Davies’s Chevrolet Corvette Jon Fairley staved off a determined Historic FF1600 Merlyns for Sunday’s out early, Voyazides/Hadfield overcame a Peter Horsman in both HGPCA races, finale. They enjoyed a humdinger of a gearbox issue en route to GT & Sports maximising his Brabham’s 2.7-litre fight out front while table topper Rob Car Cup victory in Leo’s AC Cobra. GT3 Climax’s edge over the 2.5 Lotus. Wainwright – who put his Elden on pole division winners Jeremy Welch/Martyn MARCUS PYE

1 Andrew Hibberd (Brabham BT18A); Michael Hibberd (Lotus-t/c 23B); Brian Tom White (Osella FAF); John Stapleton TOURING CARS (25 LAPS) 1 Leo Cooper S); David Lloyd (Ford Mustang). 2 Simon Armer (March 703) +13.263s; Casey (Lenham P69); John Davison (Tui BH2); Peter Finnigan (Merlyn Voyazides/Simon Hadfield (Lola-DFV Inv Fenn. FL Voyazides 1m48.178s 3 James Denty (Lotus 41); 4 Peter (Lotus Elan); Andrew Hill/Harry Mk20A/11A). FL Pearson 1m33.159s T282); 2 Richard Piper/Greg Caton (80.97mph). P Voyazides. S 22. Thompson (Brabham BT21); 5 Mark Wyndham (Austin-Healey 3000); Richard (94.02mph). P Pearson. S 27. (March-BDG 75S) +1.937s; 3 Doug Hart HGPCA PRE-’61 GRAND PRIX CARS Pangborn (Brabham BT28); 6 Francois Piper (Fitzgerald B2 Brahma). FL Mitchell GT & CUP FOR PRE-’66 (March-BDG 75S); 4 Maxim Bartell/Mike (BOTH 15 LAPS) 1 Jon Fairley Derossi (Chevron B17). FL Hibberd 1m39.004s (88.47mph). P Mitchell. S 29. GT & PRE-’63 SPORTS RACING CARS Catlow (Chevron-FVC B19); 5 James & (Brabham BT11); 2 Peter Horsman 1m39.334s (88.17mph). P Denty. S 25. HISTORIC FF1600 (12 LAPS) (28 LAPS) 1 Leo Voyazides/Simon Andrew Schryver (Chevron-BDG B26); (Lotus 18/21) +1.126s; 3 Rod Jolley RACE 2 1 Hibberd; 2 Thompson 1 Callum Grant (Merlyn Mk20A); Hadfield (AC Cobra); 2 Jeremy Welch/ 6 Guy Peeters (Chevron-FVC B23). (Cooper T45/51); 4 Miles Griffiths +29.876s; 3 Pangborn; 4 Armer; 2 Maxim Bartell (Merlyn Mk20A) Martyn Corfield (Austin-Healey 3000) CW Piper/Caton; Catlow/Bartell; Peter (Lotus-BRM 24); 5 Eddy Perk 5 Christoph Widmer (Brabham BT18A); 6 +0.339s; 3 Benn Tilley (Merlyn Mk20); +2m02.286s; 3 Read Gomm (Jaguar Hallford (Chevrolet Corvette); Neal (Heron-Alfa Romeo); 6 Alan Baillie Leif Bosson (Brabham BT28). FL Hibberd 4 Mark Shaw (Merlyn Mk20); E-type low-drag coupe); 4 David Stevenson (Tiga SC81); Georg Nolte (Cooper T71/73). CW Jolley; Griffiths; 1m38.365s (89.04mph). P Hibberd. S 21. 5 Rob Wainwright (Elden Mk8); Smithes/Chris Clarkson (Austin-Healey (Ford GT40). Inv Vicky & Bob Brooks Perk; Malcolm Cook (Cooper T43); GUARDS TROPHY (22 LAPS) 6 Tiff Needell (Lotus 69).FL Tilley 3000); 5 Nils-Fredrik Nyblaeus/Jeremy (Lola-BDG T212). FL Hadfield 1m28.020s Scotty Taylor (Cooper T45). Inv David 1 Maxim Bartell/Callum Grant 1m39.153s (88.34mph). P Grant. S 32. Welch (Austin-Healey 3000); 6 Mike Bell/ (99.51mph). P Hadfield. S 21. Wenman (Cooper-Bristol Mk1). (Elva-BMW Mk7S); 2 Leo Voyazides/ HISTORIC FF2000, URS CLASSIC Simon Orebi Gann (Morgan +4 SLR). CW HISTORIC TOURING CARS (11 LAPS) 1 FL Fairley 1m39.594s (87.94mph). Simon Hadfield (Shelby Daytona Coupe) FF2000 & CLASSIC RACING CARS Welch/Corfield; Wil Arif/Malcolm Paul Leo Voyazides (Ford Falcon); 2 Simon P Griffiths.S 20. RACE 2 1 Fairley; +0.388s; 3 Philip Nelson (Chevron-BMW (13 LAPS) 1 Andrew Park (Reynard (TVR Grantura Mk3); Nick Taylor/Richard Hadfield (Ford ) +17.098s; 3 2 Horsman +1.739s; 3 Jolley; 4 Rudiger B8); 4 Nick Thompson/Sean McClurg SF81); 2 Marc Mercer (Van Diemen RF82) Tyzack (Kellison J2R); Guy Peeters Rob Fenn (Ford Mustang); 4 Bob Bullen Friedrichs (Cooper T53); 5 Rainer Ott (Chevron-BMW B6); 5 Mike Gardiner/Dan +0.885s; 3 Ian Pearson (Van Diemen (Lotus 11). FL Hadfield 1m44.328s (Ford Anglia); 5 John Spiers (Ford Lotus (Cooper T53); 6 Baillie. CW Jolley; Cox (TVR Griffith); 6 Michael Schryver/ RF83/82); 4 Nelson Rowe (Reynard (83.93mph). P Hadfield. S 25. Cortina); 6 John Davison (Ford Lotus Baillie; Cook; Charles McCabe (BRM Ben Mitchell (Chevron-BMW B6). CW SF79); 5 Daniel Pyett (Tecno F2); 6 Andy PRE-’80 ENDURANCE CHALLENGE Cortina). CW Hadfield; Bullen; Simon P57); Taylor. Inv Wenman. FL Horsman Voyazides/Hadfield; Nelson; Andrew & Jarvis (Palliser WDB2). CW Mercer; Jarvis; FOR SPORTS RACING, GT & Benoy (Hillman Imp); Nick Paddy (Morris 1m39.218s (88.28mph). P Fairley. S 17.

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DONINGTON PARK MASTERS FESTIVAL JULY 2-3

Padmore takes two F1 Masters wins at Donington

NICK PADMORE TOOK HIS SECOND closer and closer to Padmore, but the Padmore beat Tyrrell David Tomlin was another double consecutive double FIA Masters Historic Williams driver just held on by 0.341s, of Deman in a close winner in the Ferrari Formula Classics. Formula 1 victory to grab the overall lead with Deman taking third. race one for first win of Tristan Simpson’s F355 led race one until in this year’s championship. Wrigley fell back into a battle his Donington double he slid off at McLeans the third lap, The first race boiled down to an for fourth with pilot Greg leaving Richard Dougal and Tomlin exciting battle between the Williams Thornton. Into the Esses for the fifth duelling, Jim Cartwright later joining in FW07C of Padmore, the similar-vintage time Wrigley tried to fend off Thornton to make it a three-way fight. Tyrrell 010 of Loic Deman and Martin but skated into the gravel and out of the Tomlin just held on to a narrow Stretton’s younger Tyrrell 012. race, before Thornton went off at advantage and, with Dougal’s F355 Starting from pole, Padmore lost out to Goddards a lap later. That promoted Hall cutting out at McLeans four laps from Stretton at the start. The lead duo began to fourth, while Thornton later pitted his home, Cartwright finished second to sprint away but ran side by side a Lotus with gear-selection problems. ahead of the recovering Simpson. couple of times at the Esses, which Dave Forsbrey and Andy Newall came Although Simpson led again from the allowed Deman to close in before a back from almost a lap down to take their start of race two, Cartwright quickly light shower arrived. Ford GT40 to victory in the Masters moved to the head of the pack ahead of “I was first into the Old Hairpin in the Three Hours. Forsbrey had an early battle Tomlin. The lead changed a couple drizzle and ran wide,” said Stretton, who with Chris Chiles Jr’s AC Cobra before more times before Tomlin was able to slipped to third behind Padmore and building a substantial lead. Chiles make a move stick, while Simpson and Deman. A lap later Padmore was “too retained second, which became the lead Tim Mogridge were promoted to second cautious” at the Esses, which allowed when Forsbrey handed to Newall and the and third after Cartwright picked up Deman to take the lead. GT40 required a longer fuelling stop. The a track-limits penalty. The lead changed hands twice more Jaguar E-type of John and Gary Pearson Both Allcomers and Can-Am Interserie before Padmore returned to the front had been third for most of the race, aided races were comfortably won by Andy in increasing drizzle, with the three by Jon Minshaw’s E-type retiring early. Newall’s McLaren M8F. John Grant frontrunners nose to tail as they caught a While Newall set about regaining the (M8C/D) was on course to finish second backmarker at Goddards. As Padmore lead, the Cobra (now in Chiles Sr’s hands) in the opening race until he pitted two backed off, Stretton caught his rear wheel was hauled in by the similar machine of laps from home with a puncture. Mike and the Tyrrell’s front bodywork flew off. Rob Hall and Andy Willis and the Pearson Donovan’s Lola T70, which had lost an Padmore held on in the final laps to E-type, both passing in the last half-hour. early third place to the clutchless March win from Deman, while Stretton’s 717 of Frank Bradley, came home second exit allowed the howling Ligier JS17 after Bradley had crashed out at the Old of Rob Hall – its Matra Hairpin. Paul Gibson’s T70 was third. contrasting with the V8 It was lights-to-flag for Newall again in around it – to claim third. race two, with Bradley pipping Grant for Padmore’s race-two victory was a more second by 0.106s. routine one, as he led from lights to flag Tommy Gilmartin and his Morgan with the majority of the action behind. Plus 8 led a three-car break in the first Stretton ousted the Williams FW07D Scottish Classic Sports & Saloon race, of Wrigley for second on lap two and but was kept honest during the second Deman followed suit at the Esses a GT40 won Three Hours with half by John Kinmond’s Rover 3500, lap later. Stretton did make things Forsbrey and Newall at wheel which had passed Raymond Boyd interesting towards the end as he edged (Porsche 911) on lap three. But a track-

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THRUXTON BARC JULY 2-3 Updated Gent Impreza takes touring car spoils A MAMMOTH ENTRY FROM THE finish, Stephen Primett had no such Classic Touring Cars was split into comfort in the Group 1 Touring Cars three grids and provided a trio of and Pre-2005 Production Touring cars. dominant showings at Thruxton. Primett’s Ford Escort Mk1 was caught up Dale Gent was the most impressive in an enthralling battle with Stephen winner of the touring car events, taking Cripps’s Escort Mk2 in each race as a commanding Thunder Saloon brace. the duo proved to be closely matched. Gent’s Impreza had the grunt Primett’s Thruxton experience was required at the high-speed circuit, but a match for the Mk2’s youth. Cripps was a new, bigger rear wing pushed him to simply unable to find a way past in the another level ahead of his competitors. opener, before Primett took a marginally In each race, Gent held his lead more comfortable second win. through the opening corners before While the sprints enthralled, it was pulling away into the distance. “This is Nigel Moore and Phil Hanson who only my second time at Thruxton, but combined to take honours in the Britcar it suits the car so well,” he said. “We Endurance two-hour race in their Audi added a bigger spoiler as it could be R8, despite a late change in strategy. twitchy through Church, but I was The pair took a risk by opting to serve absolutely planted this time.” just the mandatory stop at first for It meant that nearest rivals Vaughan Hanson to hand over to Moore, which Fletcher (Impreza) and Tom Hibbert initially had them one lap clear of the field. (BMW M3) would run to second and But Moore had to abandon that plan New Impreza wing Challenge race, but they were unable third respectively both times. late on in order to change tyres as the worked to devastating to stop the thundering Mosler MT900 Ray West added a double of his own notoriously abrasive Thruxton surface effect as Gent won of Javier Morcillo and Manuel Cintrano with two wins in the combined Pre-’93 took its toll. While a large chunk of the both Thunder Saloon/ taking the victory. Classic VW races Touring Cars and the Blue Oval Saloons, advantage evaporated, Moore was able They were chased initially by the but had to overcome a backmarker error to consistently lap quicker than the Dolby/Mustill Lamborghini, until it and a safety-car restart to take his brace. second-placed Lamborghini Gallardo picked up a puncture that ended its In the opener West’s BMW M3 pulled of Nigel Mustill and Craig Dolby. charge with Dolby at the wheel. At this clear, but his lead was soon wiped out by This polesitting Lamborghini had been point, that handed the Ferrari 458 GT3 a safety car after Andrew Smith’s Honda double-stinted at the start by Dolby in a of Calum Lockie the race lead. went off on the second lap. West survived bid to build an unassailable lead. Lockie managed to hold off the Mosler the restart to win ahead of Paul Bellamy. But as he was set to return to the track, on track before the two leading cars He then beat David Hickton in race two. a Dunlop technician pointed out the pitted at the same time. With both That second win, his fourth in a row, heavy wear on the rear tyres. Fitting four taking 90-second success penalties, it was threatened by a backmarking Fiesta replacements cost a chunk of time, which came down to who could pull off the that ran wide and came close to hitting handed Moore his path to victory. slicker stop, and Cintrano returned ahead West at the chicane on the penultimate Mustill was a distant second, ahead of of Lockie’s team-mate, David Mason. lap, but he emerged unscathed for victory. Anthony and ’s Ferrari 458. Cintrano pulled a sizeable advantage While Gent and West could breathe This podium trio also showed well in over Mason, enough to cover for a spin relatively easily in their events come the the first Dunlop Production and GT at Cobb, and cantered to victory.

6 Sturges. CW Hibbert; Robey; West; 3 Bellamy; 4 Willis; 5 Owen; 6 George P Primett. S 16. RACE 2 1 Primett; FL Dolby 1m13.172s (115.91mph). RESULTS Sturges; Thompson; Lark; Mohan; Young ( Type R). 2 Cripps +0.534s; 3 G Parkes; P Dolby/Mustill. S 11. THUNDER SALOON & PRE-’03 Wade. FL Gent 1m19.887s CW Owen; Cassar; Ward; Cripps; 4 S Parkes; 5 Andrew Busby DUNLOP PRODUCTION & GT (37 CLASSIC VW (12 LAPS) 1 Dale Gent (106.17mph). P Gent. S 25. Benjamin Smith (VW Golf Mk2); Brian (Peugeot 206); 6 Fletcher. LAPS) 1 Manuel Cintrano/Javier (); 2 Vaughan PRE-’93 TOURING CARS & BLUE Long (Ford Fiesta); Athrell. FL West CW G Parkes; Windsor; Barber. Morcillo (Mosler MT900); 2 Mike Fletcher (Subaru Impreza) +4.157s; OVAL SALOONS (9 LAPS) 1 Ray 1m25.545s (99.14mph). P West. S 20. FL Cripps 1m30.990s (93.21mph) Wilds/Anthony Wilds (Ferrari 458 3 Tom Hibbert (BMW E36 M3 Evo); West (BMW M3); 2 Paul Bellamy GROUP 1 TOURING CAR & PRE-’05 P Primett. S 14. Challenge) +4.247s; 3 Calum Lockie/ 4 Andrew Robey (BMW E36 M3); (BMW M3 E36) +2.874s; 3 David PRODUCTION TOURING CAR BRITCAR ENDURANCE (90 LAPS) David Mason (Ferrari 458 GT3); 5 Lee James Sturges (SEAT Hickton (BMW M3 E36); 4 Kevin Willis (BOTH 10 LAPS) 1 Stephen Primett 1 Phil Hanson/Nigel Moore (Audi R8 4 Steve Fresle (Ginetta G55 GT4); Supercopa); 6 Andy Thompson (SEAT (BMW M3 E36); 5 AJ Owen (Honda (Ford Escort Mk1); 2 Stephen Cripps GT3); 2 Craig Dolby/Nigel Mustill 5 Sam Allpass/Lee Atkins (BMW E46 Toledo). Class winners Hibbert; Civic Type R); 6 Danny Cassar (Honda (Ford Escort Mk2); 3 Gary Parkes (Lamborghini Gallardo) +15.095s; GTR); 6 Mike Moss (BMW M3 E46). Robey; Thompson; Neil Wade (Mini Integra DC5). CW Owen; Cassar; (Peugeot 206 GTi); 4 Tony 3 Anthony Wilds/Mike Wilds (Ferrari CW Nigel Mustill/Craig Dolby Cooper); Ken Lark (Volkswagen Simon Ward ( GTE); Crudgington (Triumph Dolomite); 458 GT3); 4 Jacob Mathiassen/Steve (Lamborghini Gallardo GT3); Wilds/ Corrado); Chris Mohan (Volkswagen Stephen Cripps (Ford Escort Mk2 5 Scott Parkes (Peugeot 206 GTi); Fresle (Ginetta G55 GT4); 5 Lee Wilds; Fresle; Allpass/Atkins. FL Dolby Golf GTi Mk4). Fastest lap Gent RS2000); Alan Eason (Ford Fiesta 6 Gary Fletcher (Vauxhall Firenza). Atkins/Sam Allpass (BMW E46 GTR); 1m14.117s (114.43mph). P Dolby/ 1m20.610s (105.21mph). Pole Gent. XR2i); Simon Athrell (Volkswagen CW G Parkes; David Howard (Jaguar 6 Calum Lockie/David Mason (Ferrari Mustill. S 11. RACE 2 (34 LAPS) Starters 21. RACE 2 (11 LAPS) Golf GTi). FL West 1m26.536s XJ12); Jeffrey Windsor (Ford Puma); 458 GT3). CW Wilds/Wilds; 1 Wilds/Wilds; 2 Lockie/Mason 1 Gent; 2 Fletcher +7.054s; 3 Hibbert; (98.01mph). P West. S 21. RACE 2 Steve Barber (Renault Clio 182). Mathiassen/Fresle; Atkins/Allpass; +3.043s; 3 Atkins; 4 Moss; 5 Chris 4 Robey; 5 Ray West (BMW M3); (11 LAPS) 1 West; 2 Hickton +4.667s; FL Primett 1m31.339s (92.85mph). Alyn James (Honda Civic Type R). Murphy/Jonny Cocker (

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Primett (left) was pushed hard by Cripps in Group 1/ PICS: Production race one ALL

The Wilds Ferrari, with Anthony Spencer’s getaway would count for Production & GT win looked set to make it two wins from at the wheel, was able to make up nothing later on. After passing McCarthy went to Morcillo/ two in the finale, but slowed with a significant ground to beat Mason for second he missed fifth gear twice, Cintrano Mosler mechanical issue late on to allow Michael to second late on. which allowed McCarthy back through, Hamlett’s Civic to win from fourth. Several teams withdrew from race two but it was too late to challenge Wheeler. The MR2 Racing Series may have had in order to conserve their cars for the Come the second race, Wheeler had a relatively small grid, but it provided the Britcar endurance event. Nevertheless, held pole, but a smart move by McCarthy closest racing at Thruxton. Throughout the second race featured a repeat of pushed him ahead and into a race-long both encounters the top five were Anthony Wilds’s chase of David battle for victory. McCarthy repelled regularly within a second of each other, Mason, this time for the win. everything Wheeler threw at him until and it was Adam Lockwood and Arron Russell McCarthy’s wait for an Wheeler got an excellent launch out of Pullan who shared the race spoils. elusive first MGCC BCV8 win goes Segrave, drawing level on the approach In the Thoroughbred Sports Car race, on after James Wheeler twice pipped to Noble before making the pass. Robert Spencer’s participation was only him to the victory. A 40-car entry made up the Nippon confirmed when rival Neil Fowler loaned Their battle in the first race was truly Challenge/Deutsche Marque/Tricolore him a front bumper, following an exciting. Wheeler made the stronger Trophy offering, requiring savvy traffic incident earlier in the weekend. The start of the two, while Robert Spencer’s management on a packed circuit. Nerijus two then proceeded to battle for the excellent launch meant that he and Zabotka made the most of his Subaru victory in Sunday’s race, with Spencer McCarthy jostled for second in a Impreza’s grunt to take the win, having taking a narrow win. three-car lead train. climbed from ninth on the grid. He TOM ERRINGTON

Vantage GT4); 6 Del Shelton (BMW P Wheeler. S 19. Roger Pullan (Audi A3). FL Zabotka E36 M3). CW Mason/Lockie; Atkins; NIPPON CHALLENGE/DEUTSCHE 1m28.717s (95.60mph). P Zabotka. Murphy/Cocker. FL Lockie 1m13.877s MARQUE CUP/TRICOLORE TROPHY S 41. RACE 2 1 Hamlett; 2 Cassar (114.80mph). P Wilds/Wilds. S 7. (BOTH 10 LAPS) 1 Nerijus Zabotka +1.364s; 3 Zabotka, 4 Hockley; MGBCV8 (11 LAPS) 1 James (Subaru Impreza); 2 Danny Cassar 5 Adams; 6 Hunter. CW Cassar; Wheeler (B GT V8); 2 Russell (Honda Civic Type R) + 0.702s; 3 Rich Zabotka; Adams; Hunter; Mitchell; McCarthy (B GT V8) +0.514s; 3 Robert Hockley (Honda Civic); 4 Michael Luffarelli; Harris; James Mumbray Spencer (B GTV8); 4 Simon Cripps Hamlett (Honda Civic Type R); 5 Tony (BMW M3); Robert Buckland (Renault McCarthy led BCV8 race two, but (B GTV8); 5 Neil Fowler (B GTV8); Hunter (Renault Clio); 6 Andrew Clio); Candler; Jesse; David was denied win by Wheeler (behind) 6 Jordan Spencer (B GTV8). Mitchell (Peugeot 206 GTi). CW Hemmingway (Toyota MR2 Mk2). CW J Spencer; Babak Farsian (B Cassar; Hamlett; Hunter; Mitchell; FL Zabotka 1m28.066s (96.30mph). ); Bob Luff (B).FL R Spencer Michael Harris (Peugeot 205 GTi); P Zabotka. S 37. 2 Lockwood +1.607s; 3 Hemmingway; (Triumph TR6); 4 Paul Khouri 1m27.502s (96.93mph). P Wheeler. Craig Tompkinson (); MR2 RACING SERIES (BOTH 10 4 Harrison; 5 Neil Stratton; 6 Higton. (MGB GTV8); 5 Rob Roodhouse S 19. RACE 2 (10 LAPS) 1 Wheeler; Daniel Adams (Proton Satria); Alex LAPS) 1 Adam Lockwood; 2 Nathan FL Pullan 1m34.348s (89.89mph). (Triumph TR6); 6 Barry Holmes 2 McCarthy +0.351s; 3 Fowler; Cripps; Gassman (Toyota MR2 Mk3); Tyrone Harrison +0.754s; 3 David P Lockwood. S 17. (MGB GTV8). CW Charlton; 5 R Spencer; 6 J Spencer. CW Luffarelli (Peugeot 106 GTi); Paul Hemmingway; 4 Arron Pullan; THOROUGHBRED SPORTS CARS Roodhouse; Steve Lockhart (MGB J Spencer; Mark Scott (B Roadster); Clothier (Renault Clio Cup 197); 5 Peter Higton; 6 Daniel Farmer. (14 LAPS) 1 Robert Spencer GTV8); Phillip Lambe (Triumph TR6). John Wreghitt (B Roadster). Jonathan Candler (Peugeot 306 GTi); FL Pullan 1m35.663s (88.66mph). (MGB GTV8); 2 Neil Fowler (MGB FL Fowler 1m29.253s (95.02mph). FL Wheeler 1m27.165s (97.30mph). Jason Jesse (Volkswagen Bora); P Pullan. S 17. RACE 2 1 Pullan; GTV8) +1.136s; 3 Alan Charlton P Spencer. S 13.

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MALLORY PARK MGCC JULY 3 Cool Connell breaks 2016 Cup duck MG METRO CUP POINTS LEADER BEN Rushworth managed only fifth in round six of the championship at Mallory Park as Lee Connell enjoyed a first win (and podium finish) of the season. Connell started strongly from the outside of the front row and led into Gerard’s Bend. Rushworth dropped back from pole into fourth, but then recovered two places on the second lap before diving through on the inside of Connell at Gerard’s to take the lead on lap four. Rushworth built a small margin but problems set in and Connell retook him at the Esses on lap 11, with battling Ashton brothers Andrew and Jack

following through a couple of laps later. WALKER Richard Garrard won the drag race to fourth at the flag from the down-on- through around the outside at Gerard’s Connell led home equally comfortable win, but he didn’t power Rushworth, while Andrew Ashton two laps later, before Luti was relegated Ashton brothers for make it easy for himself. got the better of Jack, having trailed to fourth by Fergus Campbell, who his first Metro Cup Philip Standish (TF LE500) made the for much of the contest. salvaged what he could from an incident- win of the year best start from the outside of row two to Doug Cole won the first MG Trophy packed day. William Payne, second in the lead by Gerard’s Bend, with Makar also bout, despite being caught off guard at points coming into the weekend, was on shuffled behind Ashley Woodward’s ZS. the start and dropping to ninth. His only top of the ZR160 division in both races. Makar (ZR190) retrieved second at rival in the ZR190 class, Robin Walker, Thomas Halliwell’s MG ZR dominated Devil’s Elbow on lap three, but it took took advantage before suffering dramas the first MG Cup encounter after some another six laps to get the lead. He and on lap seven. “I lost all revs coming out entertaining early exchanges with the Standish ran side-by-side for half a lap of Gerard’s and had to drop it into third,” invitation Rover Tomcat of Richard before Makar slotted through at the he said after retiring. That allowed the Buckley, which retired after seven laps of Esses, with Standish shuffled back to recovering Cole through but sent series a restarted race. Tom Diment inherited fourth after a sort-out at the hairpin. leader Lee Sullivan over the grass in second in his ZR170, but the hard work Woodward finished second, with Gary avoidance, costing him two places. of his team to repair damage after a Wetton (ZR190) getting the better of Ten laps later Sullivan got ahead of qualifying incident went unrewarded Standish on lap 12 to take third. Paul Luti for second in the ZR170 class when he pulled in. Lewis Anderson Tom Smith’s MGB was the clear by diving through on the inside at finished second in his ZR170, fending winner of the Equipe GTS endurance Gerard’s. Richard Marsh, who had off James Walpole’s B Roadster. race. Rob Cull (TVR Grantura) had a stint suffered hub failure in practice, defended Halliwell notched his seventh win in second until John Andon’s Triumph stoutly, but ceded the class win (and of the year in race two after again TR4 got through. A spin on the exit of second overall) to Sullivan at the overcoming the initial threat of Buckley, Gerard’s dropped Cull to sixth near the hairpin two laps from the end. who placed second. Third went to James finish, but he climbed back to fourth, Cole romped away with the second Darby’s B GT. Anderson and Dave beaten by Pete Foster (TR4). race, but the highlight was the fight for Thompson jostled with Darby mid-race, James Dunkley led from lights to flag second and Class B victory. Luti spent but later slowed each other up before in the Midget/Sprite Challenge – just. the best part of a lap alongside Sullivan Anderson secured fourth on the last tour. Smith finished Graeme Adams, quicker through the mid-race, sealing the position at the Ross Makar converted his comfortable comfortably clear of hairpin loop, came close to passing him hairpin. Sullivan audaciously swept back Cockshoot Cup pole position into an Equipe GTS rivals in the early stages, but he dropped away and behind the car of David Weston (who Midget/Sprite winner Dunkley faced himself had emerged from a great fight early pressure from Adams with Martin Morris) mid-race. Adams’s tentative attempt on second place at Gerard’s on the final lap came to nothing. Stephen Collier won Class B from Carl Chadwick, but it all nearly went wrong at Gerard’s on lap 11 when Peter Kennerley flew past both of them, then spun. Brian Arculus was shadowed throughout the Iconic 50s/FISCAR race by Jonathan Smare, who made it a Lotus Elite one-two.

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76 JULY 7 2016 Arculus FL CW Roadster); 6DavidGriffiths(Triumph TR4). Cull (TVRGrantura); 5MaxCawthorn(MGB +26.235s; 3Pete Foster (Triumph TR4);4Rob Roadster) (91.50mph). Toes (Midget); AdamKey (F). Winstanley (ZR170). LE500); 5JonathanHarker (TF LE500);6Ian Wetton3 Gary (ZR190);4PhilipStandish (TF (ZR190) (22 (ZR170). 5 JackRoberts (ZR170);6Fergus Campbell 3 Richard Marsh (ZR170);4Paul Luti (ZR170); (ZR190) 58.054s (83.71mph). Dye(LotusBromley; Elite). Barry (TVR Grantura). 5 BobLines(MGARoadster); 6ShaunBromley Coupe); 4Alex Quattlebaum (MGLECo2); (Lotus Elite) +0.667s;3Graham Coles(MGA S (ZR160). (87.14mph). Connell. 4 Richard Garrard; 5BenRushworth;6Tony 2 Andrew Ashton +0.421s;3JackAshton; 54.890s (88.54mph). ICONIC (94.81mph). Morrison; Dean Stanton. Collier; 6CarlChadwick. 3 Graeme Adams;4MartinMorris;5Stephen 1 MIDGET/SPRITE EQUIPE COCKSHOOT CW 4 Anderson; 5Thompson;6Walpole. (Rover Tomcat) +9.137s;3JamesDarby(BGT); Derek Bowley(Rover 216GTi). Thompson (ZR170). (ZR170); 5Steve Tyler (ZR160);6David Walpole (BRoadster); 4Grant Summersbee 2 Lewis Anderson (ZR170)+25.268s;3James MG (90.52mph). (ZR170). 3 Campbell;4Luti; 5Marsh; 6SimonByrne MG MG 54.973s (88.40mph).

20. James Smith56.991s(85.27mph). WALKER RESULTS Andon;BrianArculus (Lotus Elite). Buckley;Darby;Walpole.

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Moran matches Willis weekend double intensity struck Barbon. Thefirst, atorrential a day earlier, asthree bursts ofrain ofvarying and aresurgent Will Hall. fastest timeto defeat Willis, Wallace Menzies the day’s earlier event, hadsettheprovisional second-fastestSpedding, qualifierandthird in last year foraninvaluable bonuspoint. a hundredth outoftherecord hesetinMay line andless thanfourminutes later hetook displays. Only thendidhemove down to the waited forWillis’s timeto appear onthedigital starting area withengineoff, hepulledupand coasted down from thehilltop paddock to the weekend that caught theeye. Asawily Moran Harewood, butitwas thelast five runsofthe second event asWillis took thewin. five-time championwas only fourthinthe victory onasoggy Saturday at Barbon, butthe Moran appeared to have theedge after anearly but builttheirtotals indifferent fashions. equalled each other’s tallies over theweekend, of events at Barbon ManorandHarewood. who matched Moran’s score inagruellingpair standings over closest rival Trevor Willis, in theBritishHillclimbChampionship SCOTT MORANKEPT HIS18-POINT LEAD ROUND Raptor 3)28.47s. 27.74s; 12Steve Marr(1.6GWR-Suzuki 11 Nicola Menzies(1.3tForce-Suzuki PC) Haimes (1.3tGould-Suzuki GR59)26.70s; Gould-Cosworth GR55)26.04s;10Paul Raptor 3)25.30s;9Graham Wynn (3.5 8 Richard Spedding(1.6GWR-Suzuki Gould (1.6Gould-Suzuki GR59)24.96s; (1.6 Gould-Suzuki GR59)24.73s;7Sean Force-Suzuki PC)24.64s;6EynonPrice XTec WH)24.32s;5DaveUren (1.3t GR55) 24.18s;4WillHall(2.0Force-AER/ 23.75s; 3Wallace Menzies(3.5Gould-NME 23.69s 1 MSA 5 Ed Hollier (1.6 Empire-Suzuki Evo 00) 5 EdHollier(1.6Empire-Suzuki Evo00) 23.64s; 3Gould23.69s; 4Moran 24.00s;

RESULTS Scott WALDER Things beenquite hadn’t soclean forMoran Until Moran’s run, local specialist Richard Willis alsowon thefirst encounter at The championshipprotagonists may have hill record atHarewood Moran presses onto new

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HAREWOOD ROUND 11 Fidoe 54.66s; Haimes DNS. 11 Fidoe54.66s;Haimes DNS. Lee Griffiths(1.3sOMS-Suzuki 25)53.68s; 51.09s; 8Hollier51.12s;9Price 53.11s;10 DJ-Suzuki Firehawk) 50.59s;7Gould 5 WMenzies50.25s;6Alex Summers (1.3s 49.64s; 3Spedding49.93s;4Hall49.95s; ROUND Willis 22.34s Fidoe 25.73s;Price 22.87s;Uren 22.79s; McDonald (2.4tMorrisMiniEvo)25.69s; (2.0 Westfield-Vauxhall Sei)29.87s;Allan (2.5 Subaru Impreza) 32.42s;TimHiggins (2.0 Peugeot 205)27.94s;Geoff Twemlow Mitsubishi Evo5)29.09s;ColinSatchell Barbon (1.0 Empire-Suzuki Wraith) 27.45s. 11 NMenzies26.51s;12Darren Gumbley Fidoe (1.0Empire-Suzuki Wraith) 26.38s; Haimes 25.02s;9Wynn25.29s;10Simon 24.16s; 6Uren 24.23s;7Price 24.82s;8

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48.80s Jamie Powell (2.0t JamiePowell (2.0t positions intherun-offs. and 10championshippoints from two sixth DJ Firehawk. Hisreward was aclassvictory Harewood, beingloaned theMarsh brothers’ made oneofhispart-time appearances at being pushedoutby thewet conditions inQ2. in theopeningshootout at Harewood before his Sunday exploits, managingonly seventh hand to beat Willis by 0.06seconds. metres after theapex. Still, hehadenoughin into thefinalhairpinwithfinishonly 35 dramatic because hesuffered aluridtail slide have beeninconceivable intheearlier rain. form asWillis andMoran settimes that would fellside track the linehowling windhadbegun to dry the run-off shots. By thetimethat Gouldcame to dual-driven cars hadtaken theirround 16 ’99 –setthequickest qualifyingtime. since 1988 andhadnotvisited thevenue since Sean Gould–who hadnotcompeted at Barbon returned to affectQ2withashortburst after runs. Althoughtherain eased off, itlater for theopeningroad-going classes’ practice downpour, hitasthefirst cars came to theline EDDIE ; 2 Moran ; 2Moran Last year’s numberone, Alex Summers, Spedding’s Barbon formwas afar cry from Moran’s Barbon victory runwas especially A finalshower came after thefirst three

BTD

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and

, buthewas unableto repeat his 9 Price 51;10= Summers &Wynn27. 6 Uren 72;7Hollier54;8 Gould53; 3 WMenzies111;4Hall 78;5Spedding76; POINTS Summers 51.11s;Moran 49.88s. Tim Elmer(2.0Dallara-TKD F303)55.05s; 58.96s; Fidoe53.83s;Spedding50.46s; Caterham-Suzuki) 58.62s;McDonald Twemlow 66.02s;SimonJenks(1.6 Satchell (2.0Peugeot 205)59.98sRec; Russell (1.1Ginetta G15)66.99s;Colin Caterham-Duratec) 60.85s;Andrew 62.11s Rec; DavidWarburton (2.5 Stephen Darley(2.3tSubaru Impreza) Mounsey (1.9Peugeot 205)68.53s; Harewood classwinners 51.79s; 11Wynn53.30s;FidoeDNS. 8= Gould&Price 51.49s;10Haimes 6 Summers 50.87s;7Hollier50.97s; 49.95s; 4WMenzies50.18s;5Hall50.33s; Record ; 2 Spedding 49.58s; 3 Willis ; 2Spedding49.58s;3Willis

1 JULY 72016

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170 ; 2 Willis 152; ; 2Willis152; Jonathan Jonathan 77 FINISHING STRAIGHT WHAT’S/WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK ON

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SCOTT MITCHELL: How did Formula E end up with a bespoke CNN programme? NICKI SHIELDS: CNN have kind of been following the Formula E story from the beginning. They love the series and have a Formula 1 show, but wanted to bring it to a general audience. They decided they wanted to showcase Formula E, but also what it stands for – the sustainable cities we visit, what they’re doing to lead the charge, showcase the travel element of what FE does and where it goes to, and the technology around FE. The FE programme is great how it is, but it’s focused on the racing and the championship. There’s not time to show the other supporting elements. CNN’s audience loves technology, it loves travel and obviously sport. That’s how Supercharged evolved; it’s a perfect hybrid of all those elements.

SM: How has that influenced the variety of content? NS: The show is kind of split into Why CNN has got different elements. Supercharged follows the FE season and we have a show that comes out one week after each race. The final part is always about the racing. behind Formula E There’s a feature around the city, looking at sustainable elements – for example in Long Beach we went to the port of for what FE stands for. It’s a showcase live! So it’s a different style of show. Los Angeles, and part of it is now of what the city is doing. Lots of cities And also the viewer on CNN is not all-electric. There’ll always be a tech applied to host an FE race and only necessarily someone who followed the feature, which doesn’t have to be in certain cities were successful, and championship. So we pitch it at more the city of the race. We went to the there are reasons why – their green of an entry-level sort of view. You Bosch HQ and that was all about credentials and innovations. don’t have to watch the whole series autonomous car technology, and we’ve to understand what’s going on. With gone to Williams Advanced Engineering SM: How does it compare and FE’s coverage it’s a completely different to explain how the battery technology complement the other Formula E DS Virgin Racing job. It’s very time-sensitive and it’s works. It’s nice to dig a bit deeper into coverage you’re involved in? driver is about telling the story of the race. the technology that’s being showcased NS: Obviously the main thing is it isn’t on Sunday’s show on the track and on the road. And we’ll SM: How important is it to target always do a feature with a driver – a that non-devotee demographic? track walk or a guide to the city, like NS: Massively. FE has been met with Nico Prost driving me around Paris very different opinions and we’re doing in a Renault Twizy! our best to make it appeal to a wider audience and keep growing support. It’s SM: Good opportunity to help pitched at the perfect level to encourage spread awareness? people to embrace that. It’s a great series NS: Exactly. Formula E stands for and I think people are very interested in entertainment, the environment and technology and travel and motorsport, electric mobility. But it’s a racing so Supercharged wraps that up in one programme. Supercharged stands half-hour show.

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The Surfers Conway is now Group Publisher Stuart Williams Group Editor Anthony Rowlinson race in October offered a welcome boost at the end of a tough season. a works Toyota Group Publishing Manager Sunita Davies “It was cool, fun – they are beasts!” he says. “They have a lot of driver in the Special Events Manager Laura Coppin WEC, but the Digital Special Project Manager Simon Strang power and are really heavy, but they have really skinny tyres. It’s a Digital Product Manager Simon Grayson really hard car to get used to.” V8 race was Douglas crashed in practice and restricted Conway’s track time, far his first roofed © 2016, HAYMARKET MEDIA GROUP LTD CIRCULATION TRADE ENQUIRIES Publishing, trade and further subscription Frontline Ltd, Park House, 117 Park from ideal given his complete lack of tin-top experience. And Conway experience details on www.autosport.com. While due Road, Peterborough, Cambs, PE21 2TS. care is taken to ensure the contents of Tel: +44 (0) 1733 555161. 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Conway took Editorial Director Mark Payton the start from the pitlane – something that proved quite handy when Strategy and Planning Director Bob McDowell Managing Director David Prasher two attempts at the start were aborted due to “huge shunts both times!”. Chief Executive Kevin Costello That boosted Conway fi ve places immediately and he ran as high as 10th before stopping. The duo wound up 14th, and then 16th in race two. “It was fun – at the back chicane at Surfers it’s like you’re fl oating 3()&&HUWLILHG with one wheel on the ground,” he says. “I’d love to get back in one 7KLVSURGXFWLV IURPVXVWDLQDEO\ PDQDJHGIRUHVWVDQG again now I’m more experienced, but I’ve never really talked about it.” Haymarket is certified FRQWUROOHGVRXUFHV by BSI to environmental ZZZSHIFFRXN SCOTT MITCHELL standard ISO14001

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